I didn't know anything. Nothing but what I knew to have happened and what little history said of me, with only so much ability to put the pieces together. When I first came to stay in Niflheim I had no real concept of what I'd even done wrong in the first place, much less what to do about it.
[When he wasn't snapped at or pushed away, Ardyn leaned lightly on Ignis' shoulder.]
But by the time I came to Insomnia then, it didn't matter. I just wanted to destroy everything he created. I wanted answers, at the very least. But even summoned from the Old Wall, my brother wouldn't dare offer anything quite so helpful. Frustrated as I was, I turned around to kill Regis and be done with it, then-...
[Ardyn trailed off, taking a drink with something very tired and distant in blue eyes.]
That's how I came to learn the truth. Bahamut himself descended and told me in no uncertain terms exactly what my purpose was. 'The limitless darkness to usher in the light', he said. Naught but a sacrifice for the true Chosen King yet to be, and everything I did...it was all for nothing, because that had been my fate even as far back as the inception of the kingdom itself.
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[When he wasn't snapped at or pushed away, Ardyn leaned lightly on Ignis' shoulder.]
But by the time I came to Insomnia then, it didn't matter. I just wanted to destroy everything he created. I wanted answers, at the very least. But even summoned from the Old Wall, my brother wouldn't dare offer anything quite so helpful. Frustrated as I was, I turned around to kill Regis and be done with it, then-...
[Ardyn trailed off, taking a drink with something very tired and distant in blue eyes.]
That's how I came to learn the truth. Bahamut himself descended and told me in no uncertain terms exactly what my purpose was. 'The limitless darkness to usher in the light', he said. Naught but a sacrifice for the true Chosen King yet to be, and everything I did...it was all for nothing, because that had been my fate even as far back as the inception of the kingdom itself.