One Skyrim Quest Takes a Wild Spin on a Series-Long Antagonist

Religion is at the center of many major conflicts in The Elder Scrolls franchise. In its latest mainline title, Skyrim, one of the main storylines is a civil war brought on by the empire’s ban on the worship of the human king-turned-god Talos. Just like established mythologies in the real world, Tamriel has a stacked pantheon of deities from different cultures. Many of them are self-serving and evil, and there’s no better example than the Daedric Prince of Domination himself, Molag Bal. His appearances in the games have been quite direct, with him destroying Bosmeri settlements during the First Era and almost fusing his realm with Nirn itself. However, his most interesting cameo in recent memory happened in the Fourth Era, during the events of Skyrim.