Aww love this fanfic! I really liked this spin on the events if things happened a little different.
Funny about Aera now that Episode Ardyn has come out and play now ;)
Please keep writing!

I’d like to say this now that I’ve seen information on the novel which is based off of the canceled 3 DLC’s but holy $& ! You were close with how Luna somewhat kind of is from what the information about the novel says!

I was really hoping for the 10 years to past. Maybe Luna could have rosed up with her own army of Daemons and human comrades to fight against Ardyn and his lot. Basically Caska fighting Griffith and Gutts a.k.a. Noctis finally appearing to aid Luna. It takes sacrifice to save a world. Either die a hero or live to see yourself become a Villain. Ardyn and Luna's interaction and dialogue were my favourite part of the story. Especially the slap. Basically the ending was seeking peace, forgiveness and remorse. If Noctis showed no remorse to Ardyn he would be no better than the other kings before him. Even in the game Luna knew who and what Ardyn was and still wanted to heal him. Even in the end. She purify Ardyn Soul of the darkness. That takes all lot of understanding and forgiveness.

3 years... I prefer the original 10 T~T

Glad to see this get a happy end. Reading this all the way through I wouldn't have thought it would be happy but still I'm glad. The ending in the game upset me in so many ways. So much potential. Besides, I always felt the price for ending the eternal night was insane. I fondly remember my ff's being about resisting destiny and fighting against pre-destined fates. Not fixing these astral beings mistakes, in a way that kills you without too much question. This ending is well deserved after all the crap they endured. I enjoyed this story very much and I'm so glad you saw it through and finished it!

Yay, loved the happy ending! Great story!

and...that's all I feel sad to see this go mostly because it made me feel a rather erratic set of emotions from fear to frustration to blargh to happy to laughing and so on plus...my favs haven't been getting updated so i'm desperate to find stuff to read I mean I could get a real life beyond work sleep fanfiction and video games but eww who wants one of those anyway great work on your story and seeing it through to the end

and we're at the end it was long road full of twists and the occasional blargh moment but it seems to be wrapping up nicely

I'm not familiar with the dlc but I think you are handling the fight with Ardyn well. I'm eager to see how this whole story ties together. I was not a fan of the ending in ff xv. Too many sacrifices for too little explanation. Good luck.

The battle with Ifrit was alright, it felt a bit abrupt though. Since it was similar to the in game fight. You really didn't need to focus that much on it anyway. But like Luna and Noct need to sit down and have a talk, omg.

One thing that bugged me in this chapter more than usual was the use of, 'chocobros.' It is really out of place. Just group or party would have worked, though I do get why you use it.

Aw, iron giant, just admit that you grew fond of Luna,lol. I have to say that I like the interactions between Luna and Ardyn the best and I wish they were longer.

well that was good kind of curious to see how you write the Noctis vs Ardyn fight I always pictured it in my head as fast and chaotic with the 13 royal arms zipping all over like tracking missiles clashing against Arydn's dark arms while Noctis and Arydn attacked each other at blinding speeds from different ranges

huh Iron Giant the best daemon a girl could have glad to see Luna got her light now if Noctis could just tear Ardyn's throat out you know I was never happy Ardyn got peace at the end with everything he's done he deserves some form of hell in the after life

Oh Christ, there are so many things that have been done wrong in this chapter, it's like being punched in the stomach repeatedly after finishing a four course meal. So, I'm not going to pull my punches with my criticism.

Let's start with the most glaring issue:

Why, oh WHY, does Ardyn need a button to use his evil daemon powers? I think snapping his fingers should do the trick. Or maybe blinking? Yawning? Staring into space and not doing anything in particular? Literally ANYTHING works as long as he doesn't need help, because he doesn't actually NEED to do anything in the first place.

NEXT!

Why the hell did he just slaughter all his livestock? You made it exceptionally clear that everyone in Gralea was in the process of undergoing Daemonification, so why would he just kill them? Especially when it would be that much more horrifying (and satisfying for him) for the people to see people on-screen turn before being devoured alive by grotesque abominations that were their children scant seconds earlier? As a certain redheaded Turk might have put it; That there is completely non-Ardyn behavior, yo.
You also cheated the readers by giving them a certain expectation and then ripping the payoff away from them before gratifying it. You probably lost a few of your older readers the second they saw the daemons appear. Not the younger ones. They don't know better.

NEXT!

Bahamut sounds suspiciously casual. His dialogue in the game made it exceptionally clear that he was very much into the whole, 'I am a god, and thou shalt seek me out for mine divine providence! So say I, the Draconian, greatest of the Six!' and all that manner of speech.

Not off topic, Ifrit sounded like the 'lousy mob boyfriend,' stereotype, from what little dialogue we got out of him, where I'm pretty sure he'd sound a bit like a masculine Shiva. That said, you should know something's wrong when your gods talk like normal people. Even Gentiana had a more refined manner about her. What's with this sharp quality dropoff?

NEXT!

You have spent the last several chapters making it inescapably clear that touching the Crystal would KILL Luna. Why would it draw her in? The Six have rejected her, the game made it obvious that gods were all assholes except possibly for Shiva and Ramuh, and even if they hadn't, that isn't the problem; it's that she's got a body full of Daemons, and the Crystal will annihilate her for purely 'scientific' reasons.

NEXT!

The term 'Chocobros' is not ascended fanon. There is no reason you should be using it inside the narrative!

NEXT!

STOP USING NUMBERS INSTEAD OF MAKING A FEW EXTRA KEYSTROKES! TYPE THE DAMN WORDS!

well we're nearing the end I do wonder though how these two will make it out without a martyr's death