[Does a destroyed world make for a destroyed Prophecy as well? The others he had spoken with (those from Eos, the ones that looked at him with hatred blazing in their eyes, and he returned it with a smile) seemed to have thought as much. As if everything that had transpired back home meant nothing, as if a thousand years of fate churning and twisting into reality could be erased with a different sort of cataclysm altogether.

It some ways, it had been. Eos being swept out from under his feet was beyond even his control, but to act as if everyone should pick up and move on? Like his purpose hadn't been grounded in millennia's worth of waiting. Like he hadn't been so close-

In some ways, their thoughts run parallel, but altogether different. Ardyn doesn't let any of this show, not really. Only in the way he considers her question with a faint knitting of his brow, having known she was likely going to ask after bringing it up. He verbally dances around the question itself.]

The entirety of Eos was, given that it affected its entire population at large. But I did player a larger part, in helping a king gain the power he needed to offset the darkness. Or at least, he would have. It was all very unduly interrupted.

[You know, by the Storm.]