Five Songs of King Wulfharth Content . The Five Songs of King Wulfharth Shor ' s Tongue . The first song of King Wulfharth is ancient , circa 1E500 . After the defeat of the Alessian army at Glenumbria Moors , where King Hoag Merkiller was slain , Wulfharth of Atmora was elected by the Pact of Chieftains . His Thu ' um was so powerful that he could not verbally swear into the office , and scribes were used to draw up his oaths . Immediately thereafter the scribes wrote down the first new law of his reign : a fiery reinstatement of the traditional Nord ic pantheon . The Edicts were outlawed , their priests put to the stake , and their halls set ablaze . The shadow of King Borgas had ended for a span . For his zealotry , King Wulfharth was called Shor ' s Tongue , and Ysmir , Dragon of the North . Kyne ' s Son . The second song of King Wulfharth glorifies his deeds in the eyes of the Old Gods . He fights the eastern Orcs and shouts their chief into Hell . He rebuilds the 418th step of High Hrothgar , which had been damaged by a dragon . When he swallowed a thundercloud to keep his army from catching cold , the Nords called him the Breath of Kyne . Old Knocker . The third song of King Wulfharth tells of his death . Orkey , an enemy god , had always tried to ruin the Nords , even in Atmora where he stole their years away . Seeing the strength of King Wulfharth , Orkey summoned the ghost of Alduin Time - Eater again . Nearly every Nord was eaten down to six years old . Boy Wulfharth pleaded to Shor , the dead Chieftain of the Gods , to help his people . Shor ' s own ghost then fought the Time - Eater on the spirit plane , as he did at the beginning of time , and he won , and Orkey ' s folk , the Orcs , were ruined . As Boy Wulfharth watched the battle in the sky he learned a new thu ' um , What Happens When You Shake the Dragon Just So . He used this new magic to change his people back to normal . In his haste to save so many , though , he shook too many years out on himself . He grew older than the Greybeards , and died . The flames of his pyre were said to have reached the hearth of Kyne itself . The Ash King . The fourth song of King Wulfharth tells of his rebirth . The Dwarves and Devils of the eastern kingdoms had started to fight again , and the Nords hoped they might reclaim their ancient holdings there because of it . They planned an attack , but then gave up , knowing that they had no strong King to lead them . Then in walked the Devil of Dagoth , who swore he came in peace . Moreover , he told the Nords a wondrous thing : he knew where the Heart of Shor was ! Long ago the Chief of the Gods had been killed by Elven giants , and they ripped out Shor ' s Heart and used it as a standard to strike fear into the Nords . This worked until Ysgramor Shouted Some Sense and the Nords fought back again . Knowing that they were going to lose eventually , the Elven giants hid the Heart of Shor so that the Nords might never have their God back . But here was the Devil of Dagoth with good news ! The Dwarves and Devils of the eastern kingdom had his Heart , and this was the reason for their recent unrest . The Nords asked the Devil of Dagoth why he might betray his countrymen so , and he said that the Devils have betrayed each other since the beginning of time , and this was so , and so the Nords believed him . The Tongues sung Shor ' s ghost into the world again . Shor gathered an army as he did of old , and then he sucked in the long - strewn ashes of King Wulfharth and remade him , for he needed a good general . But the Devil of Dagoth petitioned to be that general , too , and he pointed out his role as the blessed harbinger of this holy war . So Shor had two generals , the Ash King and the Devil of Dagoth , and he marched on the eastern kingdoms with all the sons of Skyrim . Red Mountain . The fifth song of King Wulfharth is sad . The survivors of the disaster came back under a red sky . That year is called Sun ' s Death . The Devil of Dagoth had tricked the Nords , for the Heart of Shor was not in the eastern kingdoms , and had never been there at all . As soon as Shor ' s army had got to Red Mountain , all the Devils and Dwarves fell upon them . Their sorcerers lifted the mountain and threw it onto Shor , trapping him underneath Red Mountain until the end of time . They slaughtered the sons of Skyrim , but not before King Wulfharth killed King Dumac the Dwarf - Orc , and doomed his people . Then Vehk the Devil blasted the Ash King into Hell and it was over . Later , Kyne lifted the ashes of the ashes of Ysmir into the sky , saving him from Hell and showing her sons the color of blood when it is brought by betrayal . And the Nords will never trust another Devil again . The Secret Song of Wulfharth Ash - King The Truth at Red Mountain . The Heart of Shor was in Resdayn , as Dagoth - Ur had promised . As Shor ' s army approached the westernmost bank of the Inner Sea , they stared across at Red Mountain , where the Dwemeri armies had gathered . News from the scouts reported that the Chimer i forces had just left Narsis , and that they were taking their time joining their cousins against the Nords . Dagoth - Ur said that the Tribunal had betrayed their King ' s trust , that they sent Dagoth - Ur to Lorkhan ( for that is what they called Shor in Resdayn ) so that the god might wreak vengeance on the Dwarves for their hubris ; that Nerevar ' s peace with the Dwemer would be the ruin of the Velothi way . This was the reason for the slow muster , Dagoth - Ur said . The Armies Grow . And Lorkhan ( for that is what they called Shor in Resdayn ) said : " I do not wreak vengeance on the Dwarves for the reasons that the Tribunal might believe I do . Nevertheless , it is true that they will die by my hand , and any whoever should side with them . This Nerevar is the son of Boethiah , one of the strongest Padomaics . He is a hero to his people despite his Tribunal , and he shall muster enough that this battle will be harder going still . We will need more than what we have . " And so Dagoth - Ur , who wanted the Dwarves as dead as the Tribunal did , went to Kogoran and summoned his House chap ' thil , his nix - hound s , his wizards , archers , his stolen men of brass . And the Ash King , Wulfharth , hoary Ysmir , went and made peace with the Orcs in spite of his Nordic blood , and they brought many warriors but no wizards at all . Many Nords could not bring themselves to ally with their traditional enemies , even in the face of Red Mountain . They were close to desertion . Then Wulfharth said : " Don ' t you see where you really are ? Don ' t you know who Shor really is ? Don ' t you know what this war is ? " And they looked from the King to the God to the Devils and Orcs , and some knew , really knew , and they are the ones that stayed . The Doom Drum . Nerevar carried Keening , a dagger made of the sound of the shadow of the moons . His champions were Dumac Dwarfking , who carried a hammer of divine mass , and Alandro Sul , who was the immortal son of Azura and wore the Wraith Mail . They met Lorkhan at the last battle of Red Mountain . Lorkhan had his Heart again , but he had long been from it , and he needed time . Wulfharth met Sul but could not strike him , and he fell from grievous wounds , but not before shouting Sul blind . Dagoth - Ur met Dumac and slew him , but not before Sunder struck his lord ' s Heart . Nerevar turned away from Lorkhan and struck down Dagoth - Ur in rage , but he took a mortal wound from Lorkhan in turn . But Nerevar feigned the death that was coming early and so struck Lorkhan with surprise on his side . The Heart had been made solid by Sunder ' s tuning blow and Keening could now cut it out . And it was cut out and Lorkhan was defeated and the whole ordeal was thought over .