Talk:A Warm Welcome/@comment-901292-20131201193120/@comment-3498155-20141102161458

^ Exactly. Nobody else is privy to Arisen lore; all they know is, roughly, Arisen are linked to a dragon somehow, and there are rumours of their hearts not beating anymore. (Other than that cutscene early in the game, nobody else mentions anything about hearts, so I assume the specifics are unknown.)

Nobody questioned why the Duke forbid pawns from entering his castle, or (implied) why he never left it - that's because they would've outed him as still being Arisen, but even then it isn't immediately obvious that people would extrapolate from that and realise that he never killed the previous dragon (actually, it was still Grigori).