this all sounds great! (I laughed at the "increasingly confusing narrative" part of A Song of Crystals and Daemons lmao ;aksdf)

I've done everything EXCEPT Ardyn's AU history, but it will mostly consist of "doesn't get along with rich family, with the exception of nephews and niece" in regards to things that will actually pertain to Iris, so I don't really see anything contradictory at all in what I had in mind for him :>