

Lunafreya's spirit helps Noctis and the kings of Lucis erase the Starscourge within Ardyn's soul. Thus, Bahamut needs a True King to descend into the realm to destroy the corrupted part of Ardyn. Since Bahamut exists both in the physical realm and in the beyond, he can't be killed or infected with the Starscourge. According to the novel, when the corrupted Ardyn touched the Crystal 2,000 years ago, his soul became trapped in the "beyond", giving Ardyn an immortal existence akin to Bahamut's. In the original game whether the two are one and the same is ambiguous, but Final Fantasy XV -The Dawn of the Future- elaborates further in the realm's workings. He meets Ardyn's spirit in an in-between realm that appears as a glimmering void identical to the place where he had met Bahamut. Noctis fulfills his calling and opens the way to the beyond with the power of the Ring of the Lucii, dying in the process. The spirit of Noctis's father, King Regis, appears to him in his dream in the beyond to offer encouragement. After Noctis entered the glimmering Crystal, its light faded and it became lusterless.įinal Fantasy XV -The Dawn of the Future- depicts Noctis entering a dream world and receiving various memories from the Crystal during his decade-long sleep in its heart, coming to understand the history of the world and his lineage, and the motives of his nemesis and beloved. Noctis sleeps in the heart of the Crystal for ten years while his Ring of the Lucii absorbs the stone's power. He meets Bahamut who tells him the Crystal holds the "soul of the star" and explains Noctis's destiny as the True King: as the culmination of the Lucian kings' bloodline, Noctis can save Eos from the Starscourge-a malady that engulfs the world in darkness and turns humans into daemons-by defeating Ardyn, Noctis's immortal ancestor who once fought the Starscourge whose own soul became corrupted by it. In Final Fantasy XV Noctis enters the realm directly by touching the Crystal and being absorbed by it. Ardyn can either accept or rebel, but is ejected from the realm and finds himself in his old cell in Angelgard.īahamut holds Noctis on the palm of his hand. In Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn, after Bahamut stops Ardyn from killing King Regis, he brings Ardyn to his realm to reveal the latter's true calling: to spread the Starscourge around Eos and then be killed by the True King, granting him both his revenge and eternal peace. Passage to Bahamut's realm is granted via different means.
