There is no denying that the one responsible for his own brother's imprisonment had been Somnus. After his death, while some records were kept of the lost Lucis Caelum, not one sought to release the one called 'Adagium'. No one could decipher the mechanisms of the Scourge, only that its main source was imprisoned and kept from the rest of the world. No one in Lucis sought to change that ignorance, whether out of fear or some divine intervention of pursuing it.

Even though as all of those years passed, it became increasingly obvious that the imprisoned man still suffered in shadows, all while Lucis thrived.

"For two thousand years.... I had done nothing." He concedes to it, for there is nothing else with which to defend. Each word feels like gravel tossing in his throat. What excuse is being within the purgatory of the Ring, underneath the overwhelming God of War and the oppressive power of the Crystal? Somnus is powerless, weak, and for that weakness, he did nothing. Weakness is not an defense Ardyn would accept.

He lifts his head, watching Ardyn solemnly.

"To do nothing still, all while I see you continue to suffer... This, I will not accept."

It is too defeatist when there is opportunity to do better beyond the yoke of the Bladekeeper. More than all, Somnus wants better for his brother in this realm.