Peryite is a Daedric Prince whose influence far exceeds his reputation. Sometimes dismissed by scholars and cultists alike as one of the "lesser" Daedra, Peryite in fact governs some of the most persistent and insidious forces in Mundus. Known as the Taskmaster and the Lord of Pestilence, he is the Daedric Prince of disease, contagion, and natural order, embodying a paradox of filth and structure. Despite his draconic visage—a form often interpreted as a mockery of Akatosh—Peryite does not wield temporal authority or dominion over time. Instead, his power seeps through the invisible cracks of civilization, where plagues fester, systems rot, and rot, in turn, becomes ritual.
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| Peryite, the Daedric Prince of Pestilence and Plague |
Within the Daedric pantheon, Peryite is anomalous. He is both reviled and essential, a being whose followers speak of "balance" even as they spread decay. He is also one of the few Princes to be described as actively maintaining the hierarchies of Oblivion itself, ensuring the compliance of lesser Daedra and organizing the lower realms. His influence touches both cosmic and microbial scales. And in this, Peryite represents a philosophical challenge to the moral structures of Nirn—he is the filth that cleanses, the pestilence that purges excess, and the decay that permits rebirth.
What Does Peryite Look Like?
Descriptions of Peryite’s appearance vary, but most reports agree on one startling feature: despite being considered among the weakest of the Princes by mortal scholars, he often appears as a green, skeletal dragon. This form is deeply unsettling to many in Tamriel, as dragons are widely associated with Akatosh and time, symbolizing stability, nobility, and endurance. That Peryite assumes this form is viewed by some as a cosmic irony, and by others as a deliberate affront. The Pocket Guide to the Empire even suggests that mortals ought to interpret Peryite’s resemblance to Akatosh as a “primordial jest,” though the Prince himself offers no clarification.
At other times, Peryite is said to manifest as plumes of vapor, a swarm of insects, or visions within dreams. In Daggerfall, he appears as a semi-translucent green wyrm; in Oblivion, his presence is disembodied and distant, speaking to the Champion through an avatar. In Skyrim, he is visualized seated regally on a pedestal amidst the sulfuric haze of his shrine. These portrayals reflect his detachment from direct mortal affairs, preferring symbolism and ritual over bombast.
What Is Peryite’s Role Among the Daedric Princes?
Peryite’s influence lies in the balance between natural entropy and structural enforcement. While most Daedric Princes embody chaotic or extreme elements—Madness, Domination, Desire—Peryite straddles a more utilitarian axis. His spheres include disease, plague, toxic phenomena, and filth, but also maintenance of structure among Daedric beings. He is Taskmaster in both title and function, charged with keeping the “lesser” Daedra in order, a role that makes him almost bureaucratic within the hierarchy of Oblivion.
While Jyggalag represents imposed, crystalline order, Peryite's concept of order is organic, self-regulating, and at times self-purging. His version of order tolerates decay, because decay removes the unworthy. His plagues test civilizations, strip away weakness, and renew ecosystems. That balance—between rot and reset—is what drives his worshippers to view contagion not as evil, but as sacred necessity.
Which Games Does Peryite Appear In?
Peryite has appeared in multiple Elder Scrolls games, though often as a distant and enigmatic presence. In The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, he may be summoned to offer the player a quest, involving typical Daedric bargain structures. He is one of the few Princes to consistently demand complex offerings, reflecting his indifference to the unprepared.
In Oblivion, Peryite’s shrine becomes accessible once the player reaches level 10 and provides specific offerings—deathbell, vampire dust, silver, and a flawless ruby. His quest is unusual: he asks the Hero of Kvatch to recover the trapped souls of his followers, whose attempt to commune with him has gone awry. Notably, these souls are suspended in a dreamlike daze, and the Oblivion realm in which they are found visually resembles Mehrunes Dagon’s Deadlands. This overlap has fueled speculation about the metaphysical overlap between Daedric realms, or the nature of Peryite’s Pits.
In Skyrim, Peryite’s quest “The Only Cure” begins at his shrine northeast of Markarth, involving a Breton alchemist named Kesh the Clean and an afflicted follower named Orchendor, who has gone rogue. Here, Peryite’s sphere of disease is made explicit through the Afflicted—a cult that spreads Peryite’s blight through alchemical poisoning. The Dragonborn must cleanse the rot by killing Orchendor, proving themselves worthy in the Prince’s eyes.
Peryite also appears in The Elder Scrolls Online, though typically through indirect references, relics, or daedric artifacts such as the mysterious “Dream Bridge.”
What Is Peryite’s Realm of Oblivion?
Peryite’s plane of Oblivion is referred to only as “The Pits”—a deliberately vague and inaccessible location that even Daedrologists struggle to define. It is distinct from the grandiose, fully explorable realms of other Princes like Azura or Sheogorath. When his worshippers attempted to reach him in Oblivion, their souls were displaced into another Daedric realm entirely. This spatial misalignment suggests that either the Pits are hidden beyond normal daedric topography, or that they exist in a more metaphysical dimension, one not readily rendered in mortal imagination.
The few descriptions we do have imply a realm of sulfur, vapor, bile, and structure. Not pure chaos, but not welcoming either. Peryite’s plane may reflect his duality: toxic yet ordered, repugnant but efficient, teeming with forms of life that mortals find abhorrent but which thrive under his will.
What Are Peryite’s Artifacts and Symbols?
Peryite’s most notable artifact is Spell Breaker, a powerful shield that reflects his concern with survival and natural equilibrium. The shield offers magical resistance and warding effects, making it anathema to mages who rely on unchecked power. Despite its name, Spell Breaker doesn’t just neutralize magic—it reasserts balance by shielding the bearer and denying advantage. It reflects Peryite’s ethos of culling excess and ensuring no force becomes too dominant.
Other relics associated with Peryite include alchemical instruments, diseased fetishes, and ritual masks worn by the Afflicted in Skyrim. These items are rarely glamorous but always functional, emphasizing endurance, ritual, and control over corruption.
What Is the Cult of Peryite?
Peryite’s worshippers are often the shunned, the diseased, and the rigidly devout. His cults, particularly in Skyrim and Oblivion, show that devotion to Peryite frequently involves self-sacrifice or exposure to plague. In Cyrodiil, the souls of his followers were separated from their bodies due to an incomplete ritual—suggesting a spiritual hazard inherent in his service. In Skyrim, the Afflicted willingly imbibe a poisonous vapor to transform their physiology, gaining resistance to disease at the cost of disfigurement and madness.
Despite this, his followers often speak with zeal, asserting that Peryite grants them clarity, strength, and purpose. They are not aimless heretics—they are enforcers of a cosmic audit, eradicating impurity from both the body and the world.
Peryite's Raw Power
Peryite receives a Raw Power rating of 7.5 out of 10, placing him modestly above average when assessed across all fantasy universes. While often maligned in Daedric hierarchy as one of the "weaker" Princes, such judgments tend to underestimate the multifaceted nature of Peryite’s strength. His raw power emerges not from grandiose acts of cosmic destruction but from an insidious, persistent command over virulence, transmutation, and metaphysical entropy. His form—typically that of a draconic Daedra—suggests immense latent power, though this potential is rarely exercised through brute force. Instead, Peryite channels his strength through pestilence and elemental corruption, bending the rules of both the natural and daedric worlds through quiet inevitability rather than direct confrontation.
Strength
Peryite’s physical might, in the strict sense, is largely symbolic. His dragon-like appearance implies a towering, winged frame imbued with destructive potential. Yet, across canonical appearances, he demonstrates no feats of lifting, crushing, or physically overpowering adversaries. His representation in Skyrim, where he appears as a stationary avatar surrounded by fumes, does not indicate an inclination toward corporeal force. Even in Daggerfall, where Daedric Princes occasionally manifest in more interactive forms, Peryite does not rely on physical action to assert his will. The absence of any direct demonstration of striking force or tangible combat strength places him below average on this axis. Nevertheless, his draconic form maintains a latent symbolic threat—a vessel of coiled power, unrealized but suggestive.
Magical Ability
This is where Peryite’s raw power becomes undeniable. His domain over disease is not a mere narrative motif; it represents a form of magic that permeates bodies, ecosystems, and realms. Peryite controls contagion as a metaphysical principle. He can conjure virulent plagues that defy healing, cause alchemical transmutations of the body, and afflict entire populations with insidious ailments. His followers in Skyrim, known as the Afflicted, exhibit grotesque mutations and toxic breath, evidencing Peryite’s ability to alter physiology from afar. Furthermore, his apparent role in anchoring the lower Daedric planes points to magical control over order and enforcement—a subtler but more comprehensive manipulation of reality. This is not magic in the theatrical sense, but magic as a force of cosmic realignment. He does not hurl fireballs or summon armies, but he can rot empires from within and collapse systems through entropy. His magical potency is broad, thematic, and existential, meriting a high score even if it lacks the immediacy of explosive spellcraft.
Combat Prowess
Peryite is a noncombatant by disposition and by record. There are no accounts of him engaging in duels with other Princes, repelling invaders, or directly slaying opponents. In Oblivion and Skyrim, his approach is indirect, utilizing mortals as intermediaries. The player is tasked with resolving his concerns—recovering lost souls or eliminating a renegade priest—not because Peryite cannot act, but because he chooses delegation. This suggests a limited emphasis on direct martial skill. His realms are guarded not by Daedric legions but by the enduring presence of plague and corruption. As such, his combat prowess is almost entirely theoretical. While it is possible to imagine him capable of devastating actions given his Daedric nature and dragon-like form, the record reflects a preference for systemic, slow-acting destruction over battlefield engagement. His score is moderated accordingly, acknowledging the lack of evidence for traditional combat capabilities.
Peryite's Tactical Ability
Peryite receives a Tactical Ability rating of 6.5 out of 10, reflecting a form of strategic influence that favors slow inevitability over sudden brilliance. Though often dismissed as one of the weaker Daedric Princes, Peryite’s operations within the metaphysical fabric of Oblivion—and his control over pestilence as a system—indicate a steady, calculated mindset. He does not act impulsively, nor does he appear to wage open war against other Princes, but the consistency of his presence, the subtlety of his moves, and his manipulation of mortal and Daedric order all suggest a figure with a deeply entrenched, if understated, strategic role.
Strategic Mind
Peryite’s strategic thinking is not evidenced through traditional battlefield scheming or visible machinations, but rather through structural influence. Known among the Daedra as the Taskmaster, Peryite is responsible for maintaining the hierarchical order of the lesser planes of Oblivion—a task that, by its very nature, demands long-term planning, conflict mitigation, and systemic control. This function implies a robust strategic framework that allows him to exert influence over lower Daedric entities without constant intervention. In mortal affairs, Peryite rarely engages in chaotic or attention-seeking acts. Instead, his interventions are controlled, precise, and tailored to enforce his vision of natural order. For example, in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, his concern with retrieving the souls of his worshippers trapped in the Deadlands suggests a clear focus on restoration of cosmic balance, rather than reckless confrontation. His form of strategy lacks flair but achieves consistency, and that quiet endurance merits recognition.
Resourcefulness
Peryite’s resourcefulness is apparent through his methods of delegation and the cultivation of devout, infected followers. He does not hoard power or operate as a lone actor. Instead, he creates systems—biological, magical, and hierarchical—that can sustain and extend his influence. In Skyrim, Peryite enlists the player’s help to eliminate a disloyal priest, Kesh the Clean, who has weaponized Peryite’s gifts for his own ends. The quest demonstrates Peryite’s reliance on mortal agents to conduct localized operations, a hallmark of strategic adaptation. Rather than acting directly, he leverages lesser beings, manipulating their motivations and vulnerabilities to advance his ends. This approach is neither wasteful nor arbitrary; it reflects an ability to mobilize influence with minimal risk to himself. Peryite thrives in environments where direct action is disadvantageous, adjusting his plans based on available vectors—be they vermin, mortals, or altered environments.
Resource Arsenal
Peryite’s access to unique tools is not defined by wealth, armies, or technological artifacts, but by something subtler and far more pervasive: plague. Disease itself is his most reliable instrument, and he wields it not just as a weapon, but as a tool of correction and enforcement. This arsenal is not explosive in scope like fire or storm, but it is insidious and persistent. He commands worshippers not through fear alone, but by offering them power through decay and transformation. His cults endure in secret, often embedded within society's fringes, and his ability to channel magical ailments into biological alterations gives him a flexible set of implements for enforcing his goals. Furthermore, his position as governor of the “lower planes” gives him jurisdictional influence that transcends brute might—his tools include governance, bureaucracy, and metaphysical duty. This rarefied form of power expands his tactical arsenal well beyond traditional means.
Peryite's Influence
Peryite receives an Influence score of 6.5 out of 10, an assessment that places him solidly in the realm of mid-tier influencers across the fantasy multiverse. While he lacks the overt charisma or massive cultic reach of more flamboyant figures, his presence is insidious and enduring, shaping both mortals and Daedra through the mechanisms of fear, ritual, and consequence. Peryite's influence is not transactional—it is biological, metaphysical, and institutional. His dominion over pestilence and natural order seeps into every facet of existence, making him a persistent if underrecognized force in the pantheon of Tamriel and beyond.
Persuasion
Peryite is not a god of honeyed words or seductive promises. His persuasive reach manifests instead through inevitability. His worshippers often come to him not out of admiration but out of desperation, fear, or the hope of immunity from affliction. The cult of Peryite in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, for example, is comprised of outcasts and the diseased—figures drawn into his orbit because of personal affliction. The Daedric Prince rarely speaks directly, but when he does, he delivers commands with unwavering calm and exactitude. His persuasive strength lies in the logic of entropy: one does not resist Peryite; one bargains for containment. Unlike those who rally armies or followers through personal magnetism, Peryite manipulates need and fatalism, securing compliance from those who understand that resistance is futile and accommodation is preferable to decay.
Reverence
Despite being often regarded as one of the “lesser” Daedric Princes in terms of worshiper numbers and mortal fascination, Peryite commands a peculiar form of reverence rooted in existential dread and philosophical submission. His image—a dragon-like visage resembling Akatosh—is itself a source of uncomfortable awe. The similarity is widely interpreted by scholars as a cosmic joke, suggesting a primordial link or satirical commentary on divine hierarchy. Mortals and Daedra alike acknowledge Peryite’s role in maintaining the structure of Oblivion’s lower planes. This task is not glamorous, but it is vital. Even his enemies do not disregard him; they fear contamination, upset, and disarray in his absence. The fact that his sphere includes both pestilence and cosmic administration gives him a dual reverence: feared in the physical world, respected in the metaphysical. Among mortals, he inspires the same reverence as natural disasters or plagues—forces that cannot be fought, only endured or redirected.
Willpower
Peryite exhibits an extraordinary level of internal consistency and autonomy, rarely if ever succumbing to the volatile rivalries that plague other Daedric Princes. His will is not domineering, but inexorable. He maintains his realm and his duties with obsessive clarity, showing no signs of mental degradation, ambition drift, or self-contradiction. He does not attempt to expand his domain through conquest or manipulation, nor does he need to. The very idea of pestilence, of rot and entropy, spreads on its own. Peryite’s agency is a mirror of his sphere—self-sustaining, difficult to resist, and impossible to fully remove. His worshipers are not charmed or enchanted into obedience; they come of their own accord, often after confronting realities that make other Daedric Princes seem irrelevant. That ability to preserve his identity and purpose without compromising to gain influence is itself a profound expression of willpower.
Peryite's Resilience
Peryite receives a Resilience score of 7.5 out of 10, placing him just above the median tier when comparing all fantasy characters across universes. Though often referred to as one of the more obscure Daedric Princes, this perception belies a surprisingly robust capacity for persistence, recovery, and continuity. Peryite’s resilience is not framed through dominance in battle or regenerative feats of glory, but through metaphysical permanence, resistance to external interference, and the structural endurance of his realm and influence. He is, in many respects, an unchanging force—a presence that endures not through brute defiance but through axiomatic relevance. Disease always returns, entropy always proceeds, and the minor god who tends their mechanics is never gone for long.
Physical Resistance
Peryite’s physical form is infrequently tested in direct combat, but the few canonical depictions provide a reliable sense of his resistance profile. He manifests as a grotesque, draconic entity—emaciated, serpentine, but resilient in composition. Though his form may appear frail compared to the martial grandeur of other Daedric Princes, appearances are deeply misleading. Peryite’s physicality reflects disease incarnate: persistent, immune to conventional force, and more hazardous to touch than to behold. In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Peryite’s invocation does not involve physical trials or combat with his avatar—instead, it centers on reclaiming the souls of his followers who became trapped in Oblivion after attempting communion. This suggests a form of divinity disinterested in or insulated from direct physical engagement. His physical resistance is best understood in metaphorical terms: like a disease, Peryite is hard to eradicate through physical means alone, and what weakness exists is not exploitable by conventional arms.
Magical Resistance
While Peryite is not frequently engaged in magical duels or arcane contests in lore, his resilience to magical interference is notable in its passive expression. He is immune to the corrupting influences of other Daedric Princes, notably maintaining complete control over his own realm—The Pits—without succumbing to the incursion, destabilization, or fragmentation seen in other lesser realms. Despite a failed communion attempt by his worshippers in Oblivion, which results in their souls being trapped elsewhere, Peryite himself remains untouched and uninfluenced by Mehrunes Dagon’s Deadlands, indicating that his spiritual architecture is magically discrete and self-regulating. The diseases he spreads also frequently resist magical cures unless delivered with precision or divine favor, highlighting his control over afflictions that defy common restorative enchantments. This defense is passive but potent—a reflection of a sphere of influence that naturally subverts magical order.
Longevity
Perhaps the strongest subcomponent of Peryite’s resilience lies in his metaphysical durability. He is a fixture in the Daedric pantheon, unchanged across epochs, and has maintained an identity that is paradoxically both minor and essential. Unlike Princes who rise and fall in prominence depending on mortal cults, wars, or cosmic cycles, Peryite is persistently relevant. Pestilence, rot, decay, and natural order are constants in the structure of Mundus and Oblivion alike, and Peryite’s association with these forces ensures that his relevance never wanes, even if his popularity does. His realm—the Pits—is largely inaccessible to mortals, shielded from exploratory intrusion, which may serve both a defensive and metaphysical function. The fact that mortals attempting to reach it end up in unrelated planes speaks not to a failure of Peryite, but to his realm’s ability to remain hidden and sovereign. This inviolability is a hallmark of resilience at the cosmic level.
Peryite's Versatility
Peryite earns a Versatility score of 7.0 out of 10, positioning him as a character with specialized, yet inflexible capabilities when measured against the breadth of beings across all fantasy universes. His dominion over pestilence and disease grants him profound control in specific contexts, but his rigidity in function and limited expression of skills beyond his narrow domain keeps him from being classified as a broadly adaptive or multi-modal figure. Though a Daedric Prince, and thus inherently powerful, Peryite’s talents lie in their singular focus. Versatility, by contrast, demands elasticity—an ability to pivot, surprise, and endure across radically shifting conditions. Within that definition, Peryite reveals competence, but not range.
Adaptability
Adaptability assesses how effectively a character can respond to evolving circumstances, environments, or challenges. In Peryite’s case, his influence rarely shifts in response to external conditions; instead, he exerts pressure until the environment conforms to his design. Pestilence, rot, and decay are static in goal but flexible in manifestation—they can infest cities, armies, or ecological systems—but Peryite himself does not change tactics or approaches in response to resistance. He does not abandon plagues for other strategies, nor is he known to leverage new cultic forms, allies, or ideologies. In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, when his followers become trapped in another Prince’s realm, Peryite does not intervene or adjust his methods—he requires the player to act. This indicates a stubborn metaphysical architecture: powerful, but unyielding. His shrine interactions are ceremonial rather than adaptive, and while his plagues affect a range of species, there’s no sign he shifts approach when his agents are thwarted. His adaptability is thus passive, not active, and bounded by thematic consistency rather than improvisation.
Luck
Peryite’s role in the pantheon of the Daedra is one of inevitability rather than fortune. He is not portrayed as a being who stumbles into victory or unexpected success. Instead, his victories—if they can be called such—are the consequence of entropy, a slow grind of inevitability rather than serendipity. Plague and decay are constants, not strokes of luck. His relative obscurity among Daedric Princes also suggests that he does not benefit from fortune in the sociopolitical sphere of the Daedra. Unlike Princes whose spheres overlap with change, chaos, or subversion, Peryite’s position is static. He is the custodian of a specific function in the cosmic order, and while he is rarely challenged, he is also rarely elevated or empowered beyond what is expected. Luck, in the sense of unexpected boons or outcomes, does not figure into his identity or demonstrated powerbase. His rating here is limited by absence more than by negative examples.
Shaved Knuckle in the Hole
The potential for a character to reveal a last-resort advantage—an unforeseen capacity that redefines the course of a scenario—is central to this subcategory. Peryite, however, appears devoid of such hidden depth. His powers are thematic and direct: spreading disease, enforcing order in the lower planes, and embodying the inevitability of decay. There is no canonical indication of an ace up his sleeve, no dramatic reversal or surprise feat in the lore. His realm, The Pits, is hard to access but not shown to contain sub-realms or layered tricks. His summons are traditional, requiring defined materials and offering limited interaction. Even his divine likeness—resembling a dragon—is more an ironic commentary than a veiled threat. If Peryite has hidden strength, it remains deeply buried or non-functional in the narrative structure of the games and texts. As such, he lacks a “shaved knuckle” entirely, operating exactly as one would expect from his domain—dangerous but predictable.
Peryite's Alignment
Peryite, a Daedric Prince of the Elder Scrolls universe, occupies a unique and rigorously structured role within the cosmic order of Oblivion. As a Daedra, he belongs to a race of powerful, often morally ambiguous or outright malevolent beings who exist outside the Aurbic wheel of mortality. Specifically, Peryite is known as the Taskmaster, presiding over the enforcement of hierarchical order in the lower planes of Oblivion and spreading disease and pestilence across Nirn. Despite being commonly regarded as one of the “lesser” Daedric Princes in terms of raw influence, Peryite’s alignment is not ambiguous: he is a Lawful Evil entity.
The “lawful” aspect of Peryite’s alignment is rooted in his obsession with order, hierarchy, and function. Unlike chaotic Daedra such as Sheogorath, Peryite operates with a clear internal logic. His divine purpose is to maintain structure among the lesser Daedra, ensuring that each being remains within its designated station. This enforcement of natural or imposed order is reflected in the texts describing his realm, The Pits, which—although rarely explored—are spoken of in terms of containment, purpose, and regulated decay. Mortals who worship him are often fixated on cleanliness, discipline, and cyclical purification through disease, not chaos for its own sake.
At the same time, Peryite is firmly “evil” by mortal standards. His dominion over plague, contagion, and entropy makes him a vector of immense suffering. He spreads pestilence not out of malice, but as an impersonal application of his cosmic role. Peryite is not sadistic; rather, he sees decay and affliction as necessary mechanisms for maintaining balance—perhaps even justice. But this cold utilitarianism, devoid of compassion, still results in massive harm to the living. His followers, though occasionally protected from his plagues, often carry them to others. His shrine quests typically involve poisoning others or enabling outbreaks, confirming his disregard for conventional morality. Thus, Peryite’s evil lies not in chaos or ambition, but in detached, orderly cruelty.
His factional affiliations further support this categorization. He is not aligned with any of the more benevolent or chaotic Daedric coalitions. He operates alone or with strictly loyal cultists, many of whom are motivated by a desire for structure, clarity, or immunity from disease. In Skyrim, his followers willingly ingest toxins to commune with him, suggesting a rigid doctrine rather than freewheeling madness. His resemblance to Akatosh—a symbol of time and order—is often noted as an ironic commentary, yet it highlights his archetype: not a breaker of systems, but their enforcer in grotesque, inverted form.
In conclusion, Peryite’s commitment to rigid hierarchies, impersonal affliction, and the enforcement of metaphysical cleanliness mark him as a quintessential Lawful Evil figure. He does not seek destruction for its own sake, nor does he revel in chaos. Instead, he administers suffering with cold precision, believing it necessary for the system to function. Pride and Prophecy keeps an updated character alignment matrix across all planes of existence.
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Overall Conclusion on Peryite and Position Across Planes of Existence
Peryite’s overall ranking of 7.0 out of 10 reflects a Daedric Prince whose strength lies in niche authority, metaphysical relevance, and thematic consistency—rather than in overwhelming destructive force or total cosmic dominion. As the Daedric Prince of Pestilence and the self-proclaimed Taskmaster of the lower planes of Oblivion, Peryite occupies a uniquely stable position within the Elder Scrolls cosmology: a being of order, repetition, and rot. While this grants him undeniable power within his domain, the nature of that domain—disease, decay, regulation—does not lend itself to bombastic feats or universe-shaking influence in the way other fantasy entities across universes might display. Thus, his score reflects competence and significance within a more constrained field of power.
Peryite’s Raw Power reflects middling strength. Despite his draconic appearance—a form that echoes Akatosh, the Time Dragon—he is repeatedly labeled as one of the weakest of the Daedric Princes. He does not raze cities, hurl planes into chaos, or subjugate other deities. However, his ability to generate disease and wield pestilence as a divine tool gives him an indirect but effective weapon, capable of annihilating populations without ever drawing a sword. His Oblivion and Skyrim quests showcase the potency of his plagues, often leveraging mortal hosts and cults as vectors rather than exerting force personally. This is power, but power distributed, insidious, and latent—hence his moderate but not overwhelming raw rating.
In the Tactical Ability domain, Peryite fares better. His meticulous role as Taskmaster of Daedra, and the nature of his realm—described as rigidly stratified and inaccessible—suggests a mind attuned to hierarchy, balance, and discipline. He is not reactionary or erratic but believes in upholding “natural order” through ruthless pruning and purification. This strategic philosophy is distinct from that of Jyggalag, whose concept of order is calcifying and universal, whereas Peryite's is more organic, evolutionary, and self-correcting. He lets decay and disorder run their course—but only to reestablish equilibrium. This belief system indicates a strong if narrow strategic intelligence.
Peryite’s Influence is difficult to quantify, as he does not exert charisma or conquest in the traditional sense. Still, his cults persist across eras and provinces, fueled not by fear alone but by a genuine reverence for his conceptual clarity and function. His power is in ideology: he persuades not by eloquence but by providing purpose to the marginalized, the sick, the outcast. His similarity to Akatosh, and his subtle mockery of the draconic divine image, also lends him a subversive reverence. Mortals may fear Molag Bal, but they often join Peryite of their own volition.
The domains of Resilience and Versatility remain limited. Peryite is deeply embedded in his function, rarely appearing outside the rigid trappings of pestilence, rot, and discipline. He endures, certainly—but he adapts little, and we see few indications of “shaved knuckles” or surprise reversals. This thematic inflexibility, while evocative, limits his potential across cross-universal contexts.
Peryite is a specialist, not a conqueror. In his own cosmology, his relevance is unquestioned. But across broader planes of existence, his restrained portfolio places him below the titanic forces of chaos, creation, or destruction that define the highest echelon of fantasy power. His score of 7.0 reflects a being who thrives through ideology, entropy, and systemic regulation—not sheer force. Pride and Prophecy keeps an updated power ranking across all planes of existence. This will only be sortable on desktop viewing. The below table shows a summary within the same plane of existence of this article.
