User blog comment:Tholanar/What would you do if you were the Emperor of Tamriel?/@comment-5450493-20130112194148/@comment-3492791-20130115030511

Lorkan was not technically "killed". It was said that rather he was "unmade" during the War of Manifest Metaphors of which at some point his heart was taken from him. Supposedly the very nature of it made it impossible to describe or recount the events that occurred, similar to that the origin of the Elder Scrolls are impossible to define.