i can give you the basic rundown of important things!
12 years ago tenebrae and lucis were close neighboring countries, so their rulers (and noct and luna) were good friends. then the fire nationempire attacked tenebrae and killed luna's mother. regis and noct and originally luna fled, but the niffs captured ravus, luna's brother, so she opted to stay behind for him (also she was slowing regis down).
lucis and the empire are now on the verge of war; lucis is somehow the last country that hasn't been conquered by niflheim. but regis is too old to control the Old Wall(tm) which would be their only hope in a battle with niflheim. actually, the only reason they've survived is bc the lucis line, through magical powers, can control this Crystal(tm) through their bloodline and the ring of the lucii, and it puts up a barrier around insomnia. but it's basically only a matter of time before the empire breaks through it, so regis opts to try for the peace treaty, which has two conditions: lucis gives all territories but insomnia to niflheim, and noctis and luna (who is in niflheim's custody bc tenebrae is theirs now) get married. that's why the wedding is a thing!
you can watch how this plays out in kingsglaive if you want, but basically niflheim stabs them in the back and makes off with the crystal. they try and make off with the ring too, but ravus, who blames regis for his+luna's mom's death, puts on the ring to kill him bc it gives lots of powers that are not controlling the crystal too. unfortunately when you put on the ring you talk to all the ghosts of old lucian kings, and they're all assholes, so you can only put it on if you have good intentions and if you're of lucian royalty. and ravus is neither, so they set him on fire and he escapes sans an arm. (which is why he's got a metal prosthetic in ffxv.)
regis knows he won't make it, so he hands the ring to luna and nyx (the movie's protag. he's a member of the titular division of the king's soldiers) and does a heroic sacrifice. they kinda run away from a ton of shit trying to kill them. luna gets pinned up against the wall by a minor villain and is like "oh ok you got me... i'll hand over this ring... which by the way gives you immeasurable power" and he puts it on and gets set on fire. then she pushes his body off the balcony while grabbing the ring off him and runs for it. i love her
eventually this giant twist happens where the head of the kingsglaive was the traitor all along and he fights nyx, who realizes that yeah, they're not making it out of this alive, so HE puts the ring on. through the power of pure heart the lucian kings reluctantly give him their power, but he'll die in exchange when the sun comes up. luna runs away with the ring and he engages drautos/general glauca in an epic duel that ends in both their deaths. luna survives and runs away to begin doing her oracle thing for noctis.
SORRY for the wall of text but that's all the important parts of kingsglaive. nyx actually makes a cameo in ffxv so i thought i would at least mention him and his fate. hope this at least clears up some stuff :V
by the way, there's a short anime series about ffxv called brotherhood for free on youtube! there's prompto backstory in there :PP i didn't know this, but interestingly enough, prompto has a thing about his weight because he got harassed for being obese as a kid. that's kind of almost exclusively a trait for girls, so i was surprised... anyways, that's in brotherhood! it goes into the personal lives of the four and is all pre-ffxv. i haven't watched it myself yet but i really wanna...
(btw your celebrity comparison is hilarious bc in a later chapter some little girl just comes up to noctis like "HEY PRINCE NOCTIS")
edit: by the way i forgot to mention that the ring of the lucii (and luna's oracle powers actually) are Cast From Hit Points and they make you age+die faster. regis looks like 70 but he's actually 50. oops
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Date: 2016-12-29 05:31 pm (UTC)12 years ago tenebrae and lucis were close neighboring countries, so their rulers (and noct and luna) were good friends. then the
fire nationempire attacked tenebrae and killed luna's mother. regis and noct and originally luna fled, but the niffs captured ravus, luna's brother, so she opted to stay behind for him (also she was slowing regis down).lucis and the empire are now on the verge of war; lucis is somehow the last country that hasn't been conquered by niflheim. but regis is too old to control the Old Wall(tm) which would be their only hope in a battle with niflheim. actually, the only reason they've survived is bc the lucis line, through magical powers, can control this Crystal(tm) through their bloodline and the ring of the lucii, and it puts up a barrier around insomnia. but it's basically only a matter of time before the empire breaks through it, so regis opts to try for the peace treaty, which has two conditions: lucis gives all territories but insomnia to niflheim, and noctis and luna (who is in niflheim's custody bc tenebrae is theirs now) get married. that's why the wedding is a thing!
you can watch how this plays out in kingsglaive if you want, but basically niflheim stabs them in the back and makes off with the crystal. they try and make off with the ring too, but ravus, who blames regis for his+luna's mom's death, puts on the ring to kill him bc it gives lots of powers that are not controlling the crystal too. unfortunately when you put on the ring you talk to all the ghosts of old lucian kings, and they're all assholes, so you can only put it on if you have good intentions and if you're of lucian royalty. and ravus is neither, so they set him on fire and he escapes sans an arm. (which is why he's got a metal prosthetic in ffxv.)
regis knows he won't make it, so he hands the ring to luna and nyx (the movie's protag. he's a member of the titular division of the king's soldiers) and does a heroic sacrifice. they kinda run away from a ton of shit trying to kill them. luna gets pinned up against the wall by a minor villain and is like "oh ok you got me... i'll hand over this ring... which by the way gives you immeasurable power" and he puts it on and gets set on fire. then she pushes his body off the balcony while grabbing the ring off him and runs for it. i love her
eventually this giant twist happens where the head of the kingsglaive was the traitor all along and he fights nyx, who realizes that yeah, they're not making it out of this alive, so HE puts the ring on. through the power of pure heart the lucian kings reluctantly give him their power, but he'll die in exchange when the sun comes up. luna runs away with the ring and he engages drautos/general glauca in an epic duel that ends in both their deaths. luna survives and runs away to begin doing her oracle thing for noctis.
SORRY for the wall of text but that's all the important parts of kingsglaive. nyx actually makes a cameo in ffxv so i thought i would at least mention him and his fate. hope this at least clears up some stuff :V
by the way, there's a short anime series about ffxv called brotherhood for free on youtube! there's prompto backstory in there :PP i didn't know this, but interestingly enough, prompto has a thing about his weight because he got harassed for being obese as a kid. that's kind of almost exclusively a trait for girls, so i was surprised... anyways, that's in brotherhood! it goes into the personal lives of the four and is all pre-ffxv. i haven't watched it myself yet but i really wanna...
(btw your celebrity comparison is hilarious bc in a later chapter some little girl just comes up to noctis like "HEY PRINCE NOCTIS")
edit: by the way i forgot to mention that the ring of the lucii (and luna's oracle powers actually) are Cast From Hit Points and they make you age+die faster. regis looks like 70 but he's actually 50. oops