You did what you were told because it got you what you wanted, and damn whoever got in your way.

[They had always been opposites; black and white. How fitting, then, that Ardyn's own voice burned with rage barely masking a more genuine hurt beneath it.]

How very selfless of you, to use others as a shield when it serves your purpose. May the gods forbid one of them dare cough near you, else you'll have to burn the entire cavern alive and yourself with it.