Talk:Masked Lumen/@comment-164802-20140912210701/@comment-1661895-20140912225711

If I had to guess on the state of what is happening, the blue thing that leaves Balder's body is the power he had as the Right Eye being reclaimed by the Overseer/Aesir. Which also coincides with the mysterious figure's line in the recent trailers about how the Left Eye also has to "return from whence it came". The main reason I'm not convinced it's a younger version of Balder besides what I've said about the fact that he caused the Witch Hunts (and therefore Rosa's death) is because we know what he looks like in his youth and he doesn't look like the Masked Lumen. He has different coloured and shorter hair, not to mention the drastic change in voice.



I believe it's more likely along the lines of what Ixbran suggested in their edit, that the Overseer/Aesir used Balder's essence to create a tool for him to use, an adversary for Bayonetta to fight against in order to allow him to reclaim the Left Eye for his own purposes. The Masked Lumen may think that the Overseer is helping him to get 'revenge', but it's most likely an act of manipulation to get him to do what he wants. It would explain why Bayonetta is surpried at seeing part of the Masked Lumen's face when it's revealed as well as explain the apparent contradictions with Balder's own actions in the first game.