All of the Archons have one thing in common, the tattoo. In 1.0 I always asked the question if Archons were chosen from city-states or if they HAD to come from Sharlayan. Now with Thancred being "from" Limsa Lominsa before even was associated with Y'sthola and Louisoix it seems that it's more of a chosen thing. The leader of the Archons (Louisoix) seemed to choose the others. So I wonder if any of the other Archons are from the 3 city-states. As for Minfilia being an Archon, she's not. Least not yet. She could/may one day take Louisoix's place though...it's funny though cause in 1.0 all of the Archons were intelligent and seemed like they'd have way more knowledge about the world than 2.0 Minfilia, always thought Urianger would be next in charge that or there was more to him than meets the eye after all he was very sneaky and wasn't even present in the "prayer" scenes in the End of an Era cutscene (was always suspicious to me).

It's funny no one in the thread mentioned the new Archon G'raha Tia. I'm really hoping for more back story of him soon.