I’ll not refute that he is dangerous. I have seen that much with mine own two eyes, in a place where our innate abilities were not sealed away as they are now. Neither will I refute that he is cruel.

[ But they are rather starting from scratch here, and X’rhun ponders over the best place to start. Idly, he circles a thumb over the surface of his glass, where the cool water has started condensation to form. ]

They are from the same world, though I suspect you likely put that much together even if Noctis did not say as much. ‘Tis a rather long and complicated story that I do not know if I am fully qualified to tell, but suffice it to say that Ardyn is a force of darkness, and Noctis is to be the light that banishes him. It probably sounds a bit fantastical, light and dark, the will of the gods, and the fate of an entire world hanging in the balance, but I assure you it is very much true.

Part of the reason I tell you this is so you understand when I tell you that on El Nysa – the world we were on previously – we were made to believe that our home worlds had been destroyed. What use does an evil man, even one who is darkness incarnate, have for deception and pawns when there is naught left for him?