Starter for @no-consequence
One of the best things about being a God, Kefka thought, was the ability to travel anywhere he wanted. Tired of destroying the world? Give it a break. Visit another one and make their civilization worship you before wiping them out. It was that kind of thing that kept him amused for some time after he’d wiped out any hope of resistance that the Returners had left.
For Kefka though, that kind of amusement could only last so long.
Destruction became mundane. Boredom became inevitable. Restlessness became the norm.
So he began searching instead. He searched worlds over for something to break the growing cycle of nihilism that had been poisoning him now since Terra failed to complete her duty and
That was what brought him to Eos in the first place. That was what brought him to the strange place that seemed hidden away and lost to history entirely. He’d heard whispers of a darkness that had been trapped away and sealed carefully.
Adagium. That was what they called it. But no one told him exactly what Adagium was and the references he could find were purposefully vague. Thankfully, he could feel that darkness the second he arrived on Eos and he knew it wasn’t a waste of his time.
The God of Magic took very little time finding the place inside of Angelgard. It was easy when the stink of darkness seemed to lead to a singular source. It seemed to want to crawl from the man. It needed help being unleashed. He approached the figure hanging there, a flame coming to life in his hand to bring light to the area.
“Someone with so much darkness as you truly must have been met with the worst kind of fate,” he comments, a hand reaching up to turn Ardyn’s chin to one side, then the other, trying to get a look at him.