Teruaki Ogawa. In Kingsglaive, his face was based on actor Edward Saxby, and his motion actor is Jon Campling. Appearances Final Fantasy XV Ardyn is initially introduced as the Imperial Chancellor of Eos's Niflheim empire, regarded as both its main political force and its benefactor of its advances in Magitek technology in its war with the nation of Lucis over its magical Crystal. In reality he is Ardyn Lucis Caelum, a healer who was granted the ability to absorb the Starscourge, a magical plague which threatens Eos with eternal night and turns people into monstrous Daemons. His growing infection caused him to be ostracised by his brother Somnus and rejected by the Crystal, an event compounded by the death of his lover Aera Mirus Fleuret during his fight with Somnus; this was later revealed as part of a plan by the divine Astrals to purge Eos of the Starscourge. In the present day, he orchestrates the events that lead to Niflheim's invasion of Insomnia, and guides Somnus's descendent Noctis in forming Covenants with the Astrals so he can kill him once he becomes the True King. Ardyn reveals his villainous nature by fatally wounding Lunafreya after she summons the Astral Leviathan, then harassing Noctis first by tricking him into attacking his friend Prompto, and revealing the truth of their kinship when Noctis reaches the Crystal. After ten years, Ardyn faces Noctis in single-combat in the ruins of Insomnia. Noctis destroys first Ardyn's body and then his spirit, completing his role and purging Eos of the Starscourge. In "Episode Ardyn", set thirty years before the game's events, he is freed from a two millennia imprisonment by Niflheim. Initially reluctant, upon subduing the Astral Ifrit he learns something of his intended role, and allies with Niflheim to pursue revenge. He embraces his dark powers, gradually losing his sanity and adopting the name "Izunia" after absorbing the memories of those killed by the Starscourge. Ardyn launches an assault on Insomnia on the coronation day of Noctis's father Regis, nearly killing him to force Somnus to manifest in his spirit form. Ardyn overpowers Somnus before the Astral's leader Bahamut intervenes and reveals Ardyn's destined role as the embodiment of the Starscourge and his prophesied death at the True King's hand. Depending on the player's choice, Ardyn either submits to his fate in exchange for his revenge against Noctis's family, or is tortured into submission