lialox:

**SPOILERS** Omfg??? More things I’m noticing??

I’m revisiting Ardyn scenes for writing, and I realize he actually makes so many death threats but he just disguises them.

“The boats bring you here. Well, they’ll not take you forth.”

Then he proceeds to throw a coin at Noctis specifically.

Doesn’t that… make no sense? First time meeting the dude, and what’s the point of throwing a coin? Then it hit me: A boat won’t take Noctis, so he’s given a coin as an “allowance”.

Like… the ferryman to the underworld story?

In Greek mythology, Charon is Hades’ ferryman, who carries newly deceased souls across the river dividing the world of the living and the dead. If he does not take you on his boat, then you are forced to wander around the shores for a hundred years.

The price for the boat ride? A single coin.

So by giving this coin to Noctis when he is unable to board the boat, he is “allowing” him passage to the land of the dead.

HE BASICALLY JUST SAID DEATH AWAITS YOU AT ALTISSA AND WE NEVER NOTICED WHAT THE FUCK. OR IT WAS JUST A BASIC DEATH THREAT. OMG.

(Of course, the symbolism as a Sheild is also there, when Gladio is the one to protect Noctis from “death” by catching the coin.)