What are your favorite temples and orders?

[Lt. Don Draper]

Hello Daggerfall fans. I'm loving my time as a magic-less blunt weapon wielding Nord. Got my str up to 90, agi to 80, speed to 75 already.
I joined Stendarr because Blunt (my primary conbat skill) is one of their required skills.

What's your favorite Temple? Least favorite? Experience with temoles? Favorite unique quest? I've seen a lot of info on wikis and forums but little discussion on it. Like how Kynareth seems the most common in Daggerfall so it is an appealing first pick. Some Temples seem redundant with the mage guild's services, like Kynareth. Kynareth and Julianos don't provide potion making. Some temples allow you to do things earlier like summon daedra, some later.
Inns are cheap, but on the wiki it's said that reaching a certain level of rep with an order makes inns free in their region.

[Lunar Shower]

Depends what you're after, and depends if you're looking to roleplay a character, or simply playing to be optimal, or anything between! For example, playing optimally, the best choice for a non-mage might just be Julianos as you get access to buying, as well as eventually making your own Magic Items that can serve as complete replacers for using magic on characters that are much less magically inclined. However, that's more so just doing it for the benefits, rather than a logical reason as I doubt (if you have low int) that a big blunt weapon wielding nord would have too much faith or care for Julianos compared to, for example, Stendarr, which does come with its own unique benefits like a chance of avoiding death blows, and free healing from the moment you join!

For me, I'll typically just join whatever temple is in the same city as the knightly order I join, or whichever one gives me access to potion making early on. On my current Dark Elf who is quite literally incapable of using magic (no magic in daylight or darkness), I ended up choosing Dibella as I never have before, they have Long Blade and Etiquette as skills which are two I have been focusing on, and also as a roleplay reason, a member of their temple was the one that helped me to find a cure for my characters Wereboar Lycanthropy, so it only seemed fitting! Having access to early potions through buying them also certainly doesn't hurt.

All in all, they're all mostly for flavor in the end and whatever you personally like, or think would fit your character best, save for the examples that allow you to either make spells or items, or buy soul gems as only a few have these benefits, only one in the case of making items and another in terms of spell making, so if for whatever reason as a mage character you want to avoid joining the mages guild, Kynareth will be the temple you want to go with, and for non-mages, Julianos is likely the best for the magical items from a gameplay standpoint.