Unwilling to give up a part of their own power, and subjecting themselves to mortality like the Aedra, they instead used their powers to forge the Daedric Realms of Oblivion and the inhabitants that reside there. In the Elder Scrolls universe, Daedra, literally 'not our ancestors' in the Aldmeri language, are a class of divine beings who unlike their counter-parts the Aedra ('ancestors') did not take part in the creation of Nirn.