Talk:Bayonetta 2/@comment-23555217-20140818220519/@comment-1661895-20140819000311

That actually makes a lot of sense in relation to his survival. When Jubileus' statue was being destroyed and falling back to Earth, it was missing it's head and there never was an explanation of what happened to it.

Now it's difficult to make out what happens to him in that stream video as the players talk over the scene and cut it out halfway through (they were only allowed to play 5 minutes at a time). But from what I can tell, Balder is NOT the Masked Lumen.

It looks like something akin to the demons dragging you to Inferno is happening but with Paradiso and something angelic. Something comes out of him and it's trying to drag him away, but he resists and says that 'You will not escape us...We shall perish together!' (the scene cuts out there). Balder and his ring eventually fade to gold dust (thus ruling him out of being the Masked Lumen), but he manages to say "Fear not, for I always watch over you ..." (similar to what he said in the first game to Bayonetta).

Most curious, but it's definitely not him. At least as far as what we can see here.