![]() So that’s where I went digging.Īs a TL DR, here are my conclusions: Ardyn being rejected by the Crystal is actually his own damn fault, for two reasons. They’re an alternate timeline and thus do not matter to me. ![]() So I’m going to absolutely ignore Episode Ardyn (EPA) and its prologue (EPAP) because they’re not considered canon to the main game, anyway. Then his DLC came out and a lot of retconning happened and the current stance is that he was ‘robbed of his throne’ by his brother Somnus, rejected by the Crystal for doing what he was ordained to do and overall just having been dealt a shitty, unfair hand in life, so please feel very very sorry for him. However, in Bahamut’s own version of the story, it is Ardyn who is called the Usurper, as if he had been the one in the wrong. This first account of how Ardyn came to be what he is basically amounted to him being of the Lucis Caelum line, meant to take the throne, but being supposedly usurped and/or betrayed by another. Bahamut may add his own two cents once Noctis is sucked into the Crystal, but while he confirms the major points, he doesn’t provide any details (that I remember). ![]() The fact that Ardyn himself is basically the only one who tells us what happened, providing only a one-sided, biased account of the past, does not help. This is partly due to the fact that the game has a very obvious weakness in its storytelling, and so parts of the story, character backgrounds and even lore are obscure at best. ![]() As far as villainous backstories go, Ardyn’s has been one of the most discussed ones basically since FFXV came out. ![]()
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