What I want to know is why all this stuff was being built up about the Masked Mage - including having seen Bahamut before - considering the outcome of the Gargoyle mission. I don't think he's as gone as Thancred (or Yda/Papalymo or Y'shtola, depending on where you started) seemed to think...either that or that was the Masked Man's colleague, Other Masked Man, in the Cartenau cutscene. The one that didn't have any dialogue.