Is the Heart of Lorkhan truly gone? : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:22 pm

I had recently replayed Morrowind and after the destruction of Dagoth Ur, I had wondered what truly happened to the Heart of Lorkhan? Since its the heard of god and fluxes with divine power, is it just buried under the now crumbled Red Mountain? Or did the lava actually destroy it? I'm new to the forums and apologize if this topic exists somewhere else -_-

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:30 am

Lava is Shezzar's blood, or something like that.

The heart is a part of Mundus (heart of Tamriel heart of Nirn) itself, so I'd vote buried under Red Mountain, or somewhere randomly within the Mundus.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:56 am

Well, isn't the lava the blood from the heart? I don't believe the lava would destroy the heart.

EDIT: ninja'd

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:51 am

Vanished into the bowels of Nirn, hidden from mortals, so that the atrocities committed by it shall not be repeated.
Or on vacation. Your pick.

But really, wasn't it connected to the planet and all that the player did, was release it from it's prison? It's still floating around somewhere....

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:03 pm

Some dude on bath salts ate it.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:30 am

My understanding is you just banished an aspect of the heart. Like if you killed Wulf you wouldn't kill Talos. The heart is exactly where it was before.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:42 pm

The heart is exactly where it was before.

Which is nowhere, since it was bound there since Auriel strapped it to an arrow and shot it. I suspect the Heart is most likely still on the Mundus, but as to where...who knows.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:31 pm

We don't know. It's not gone or destroyed, because destroying the Heart of the World would destroy the world. The Nerevarine broke the enchantment on the Heart that kept it bound to that specific spot. The Heart of Lorkhan is now somewhere else or everywhere else. I doubt we'll ever see it again unless someone manages to bind it in one place again, and last time it took one of the greatest minds of the Dwemer to do so, so that's unlikely to ever happen.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:57 am

Some dude on bath salts ate it.

Too soon, but I lol'ed anyways.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:11 pm

Right! Forgot that Lorkhans heart was the cradle of Nirn. Makes sense that it would just be somewhere else or buried under the rubble. Now I wonder what happened to Sunder and Wraithguard.... I hope they reappear some how in Skyrim!

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:36 am

The Heart's gone with the wind.

Besides, what does a schizophrenic heart do when she's on vacation?

Bleeds where she's not, when she thinks she doesn't.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:06 pm

The heart has vanished I hope Bethesda revisits it at some point and gives us more info

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:45 pm

Maybe in the next DLC rumored to be called HEARTh Fire lol.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:42 pm

Uriel Septim ate it.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:08 pm

In the waning years of Star-Wounded-East-As-We-Knew-It, stupendous nirnologic subduction cannibalized Lorkhan's Heart.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 4:25 pm

That's a fancy way of saying it sunk into the mantle.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:02 am

And that's what KINMUNE was made for.

Not really I hate KINMUNE.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:48 am

it ran away far far away, i mean people kept hitting it with daggers and hammers id leave too.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:27 pm

And that's what KINMUNE was made for.

Not really I hate KINMUNE.

What is KINMUNE?

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:03 pm

KINMUNE is one of Kirkbride's more...original works. It involves a mining computer AI that went insane in the Ninth Era.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:43 pm

It hasn't moved at all. It's just in a different frequency now.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:39 pm

Where's the heart? Not here. So where is it? Who knows.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:06 pm

Azura says it was "freed", rather than destroyed. We won't know where it went unless the devs decide to have it pop up somewhere.

» Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:48 am

I'd love it if there were a connection between the Heart being freed and the Void Nights. Although the two events are almost 100 years apart IIRC.