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I'm curious to see if there's a hierarchy of some sort in play. We seem to have put own down, and something more powerful than he seemed to be granting his requests for the voidsent he summoned. Ascians were also referred to as shadoweaters or those who have eaten their own shadow on occasion. Perhaps some are human/recently-ex-human, while others are timeless, and others still have that demonic grim reaper visage. However, perhaps some are merely residing in vessels. I'm not sure if it was the beta programming or what, but we do think we saw a shadow under him...

Who knows where it's all heading. I'm really going to take my time with it, I think.
Maybe the 'stronger' versions can take a form that they want, after all they seem to be strong magically. If something like a Dormouse or Snurble can come from the Void, I would say very much so weaker than Ascians/Paragons...I don't see why beings of magic in "our" world couldn't open a portal to the Void and slip through. If not with their own magic, maybe Atomos' legend in Eorzea runs deeper than we currently know..maybe people were taken to the Void.

The Masked Mage (leader?) said he thought he would never see Bahamut again, so he was around during the time of the Allagan Empire and Bahamut before the sealing...maybe he was an Allagan, maybe he was an Ascian/Paragon during this time. If he was an Allagan, then their technology was very impressive..being able to seal Bahamut and open a way to the Void.

But one thing we do know is their ultimate goal has something to do with the Crystals and Hydaelyn. Something that was started the day the day the Garleans accidently released the Primals, which allowed them to teach the Beastmen to summon the Primals. Maybe that's why the Allagans sealed Bahamut and rest of the Primals.