That can't-... [The utter rage Ardyn was showing was suddenly mixed with a faint note of shock, something astonished as he tried to consider this.]

[Was it possible what they really needed was an avatar of the Starscourge for someone to destroy?]

That can't be true. I was chosen to save the world. All the people I saved, their gratitude being turned to hatred and all of them turning on me...my brother, all of it--

[He sank to the floor with his back to the wall like what passed for legs in a human-shaped body of Starscourge had forgotten how to work.]

...I'll destroy them. If they wanted a monster to defeat, they'll have one.