[Ignis takes the other 'glass' listening carefully as he always does when Ardyn shares these dark memories that have returned to him, and dark this is, but at the same time it is not completely unexpected. In fact, the realization that he should have known even with the cover-ups, strikes Ignis so hard he blinks, lowering the glass with a soft huff.]

Of course, it was you who overshadowed the joy of my birth a few months before. How could it have been anyone else?

[It's probably not the reaction that Ardyn is expecting, but as so often is the case, Ignis uses the joke to give himself time to sort out his own feelings on what he's just been told. Ardyn's always been the man who tried to kill Noctis, the man whose fate was so tightly tied to his friend's. Does it change much to know that once Ardyn tried to kill King Regis in a time bef-

Wait.]

You didn't know, did you? That only the Chosen King could give you the end you sought. If you had succeeded in killing his majesty then...