Duvain said:
kinda neutral as far as witches go and follow the old ways mostly with Y'ffre, Kynareth, Magnus, Azura, Nocturnal (this one is tricky) and Mara in an even way if that makes sense and not the whole Hircine, Molag Bal etc thing.
I think that this will make your search quite a difficult one. Jephre, Kynareth and Magnus ain´t exactly "witch friendly" gods. They´re Aedra, so you´ll get priests and treespeakers and mages, but certainly not witches when it comes to these. Now Azura and Nocturnal are more like it, Phil is working on Nocturnal article right now which relates to the witches.
Phil also mentioned Wyresses and I think he specificaly refers to Beldama Wyrd which is actually a coven of witches - well, more like druids but females - who worship a strange mix of air, earth, water and Jephre.
Another worth mentioning is Glenmoril Wyrd, which has been always present in most TES games in some way, quite often dealing in some kind of way with vampirism or lycanthropy.
2920 mentions a Skeffington coven.
Another thing to mention that the book Modern Heretics prescribes the word "coven" a meaning of "a community of Daedra worshippers", so this certainly points in the direction that witchcraft as you call it is very often associated with Daedra.
And because Schools of Magic are nothing more than a synthetic construct of categorizing spells so that they are easier to learn you can expect that these witches who follow the old ways - not the Old Way of Psijjics - most likely deviate from that construct and wield a more wild magic. More raw magic. Very often it can be magic associated with life force such as blood magic - which is a real thing in TES - or Daedric magic which can be learned from Daedra.
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kinda neutral as far as witches go and follow the old ways mostly with Y'ffre, Kynareth, Magnus, Azura, Nocturnal (this one is tricky) and Mara in an even way if that makes sense and not the whole Hircine, Molag Bal etc thing.
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I think that this will make your search quite a difficult one. Jephre, Kynareth and Magnus ain´t exactly "witch friendly" gods. They´re Aedra, so you´ll get priests and treespeakers and mages, but certainly not witches when it comes to these. Now Azura and Nocturnal are more like it, Phil is working on Nocturnal article right now which relates to the witches.
Phil also mentioned Wyresses and I think he specificaly refers to Beldama Wyrd which is actually a coven of witches - well, more like druids but females - who worship a strange mix of air, earth, water and Jephre.
Another worth mentioning is Glenmoril Wyrd, which has been always present in most TES games in some way, quite often dealing in some kind of way with vampirism or lycanthropy.
2920 mentions a Skeffington coven.
Another thing to mention that the book Modern Heretics prescribes the word "coven" a meaning of "a community of Daedra worshippers", so this certainly points in the direction that witchcraft as you call it is very often associated with Daedra.
And because Schools of Magic are nothing more than a synthetic construct of categorizing spells so that they are easier to learn you can expect that these witches who follow the old ways - not the Old Way of Psijjics - most likely deviate from that construct and wield a more wild magic. More raw magic. Very often it can be magic associated with life force such as blood magic - which is a real thing in TES - or Daedric magic which can be learned from Daedra.
