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So Noct is someone who died in a previous life? Lily's been around pretty much since the beginning of magic.
Explains why he's an old man... He became a familiar to guide other mages in their journeys. He doesn't remember much of his previous life, all he knows is that he's been helping people like me at different points in history. I even saw him in a history book dated to have been written a thousand years before my birth.