Although there is no explicit report of death, being missing for 10,000 years... is not much different from being dead, right?
Anyway, it shouldn't just be casually announced and then it's real.
Rather than believe that the real Lionheart King has appeared, the people of the Alliance would actually prefer to think that it's some ambitious person in disguise; or perhaps some Chaos Traitors using the power of witchcraft to play tricks?
This speculation once made them afraid to land on the ground and fight alongside the uprising forces, fearing they would step into a trap and never return.
However, after carefully distinguishing the uprising forces battling the Blood Eye War Gang, it really didn't seem like an act; in addition, the state of these uprising forces truly showed no signs of Chaos corruption, so they decided to take the risk and try.
