[Oh, there it is - well, thanks for the warning, Nyx, because Izunia - cat and all - side-steps in a phase that leaves behind an afterimage as blue as any Noctis might produce.]

And we would have burned you like near all the rest had Regis not stood for you, and that I would have regretted, and you rode on my shoulder for fuck's sake, please don't make me do the armor thing to prove it, it scares Verity.

[Loud meow! She doth protest!]

There are more gaps in Lucian history than you will ever know but we can start with 'the Ardyn you knew was a two thousand year old incarnation of loathing powered by Starscourge, where the hell did you think Niflheim got all their daemons and magitek from?'