Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-173.76.160.189-20140908200216/@comment-13446185-20141103010251

ShawnHowellsCP wrote: The LDK was saving other things from the end of the Kalpa so that they couldn't be erased, and as punishment Alduin turned him into Mehrunes Dagon, so that he would DESTROY things. The reason the LDK and the Greedy Man hid pieces of the world from Alduin was so that they could place them in the next kalpa, accumulating them to the point in which Alduin eventually eats so much that he explodes. They were trying to stop the kalpic cycle.