Convenient way to make none of it your fault, huh? [Not that he was certain it really mattered to Ardyn. And this was a man that had manipulated entire empires for centuries. Gladio wasn't stupid enough to think he could outsmart him. Probably everything he was saying was meant to make him question Noctis and their mission and the future laid out before him.]

I don't believe for a second that you never made a conscious decision in all of this. Blame the gods so you don't have to own up to your part. Bullshit