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If I remember correctly (no promises)
Biggs and wedge claim he's been missing for a while, and if Catapult's ear for German can be trusted as well as I remember, the Crystal's Call trailer has Cid saying something more along the lines of, "I remember now..." than "In case you'd forgotten, Gaius..."
Honestly the fact he left the Garlean Empire because of the Bozja Citadel incident to me means Cid does not want to see innocent life be destroyed anymore. He came to the City-States to help them prepare to defend themselves, helping us Adventurers to stop Nael van Darnus. In the End of an Era CS Cid is present near the battlefield, he's seeing what his research has brought down upon Eorzea...the Meteor Project. Only it turns out Bahamut was inside and unleashes all kinds of carnage. It may have been too much for him and he looked for isolation or repentance, after all he's at a church taking care of the dead. Sometimes a beard on a man in stories is a man who has given up hope, like mountain men who left the big city to be isolated from people only to be discovered by teenagers in need who warm his icy heart and make him believe in people again (man I'm awkward sometimes). Maybe he left because he knew the Garleans would come after him if they knew where he was.

Amnesia seems to mimic the current 1.0-character storyline along the lines of people not remembering us. I'm not sure if SE would double-dip on that, why make him forget even more things. Unless of course the explosion made him hit his head.

Also Marques...Cid Del Norte Marquez...similar~