Something in 5.3 MSQ felt off to me (SPOILERS)

[DiaDeem]

TL;DR: Male titles aren't actually about holding territory as she puts it, but even if they were, there's no reason why G'raha shouldn't be currently considered a tia since he's relinquished his role as Exarch. Y'shtola should be correcting Alphinaud on this, not perpetuating it.

Oh God, the whole Tia/Nunh thing!! I was wondering if Graha would keep the Tia after being Exarch. It just didn't feel right to me. Also, gonna go tell Matoya where Shtola is. She should have visited by now.

Edit: Do you know where Ryne is?

[Iscah]

Oh God, the whole Tia/Nunh thing!! I was wondering if Graha would keep the Tia after being Exarch. It just didn't feel right to me. Also, gonna go tell Matoya where Shtola is. She should have visited by now.

Edit: Do you know where Ryne is?

I haven't seen Ryne, no. Maybe she's around the Eden areas?

The thing with the titles is that there are only two options, and tia is simply the default state of not being a nunh.

There are two ways of becoming a nunh: he either finds a tribe and defeats the current nunh to claim the title (in which case the ex-nunh becomes a tia again), or claims new territory and starts a split tribe.

Arguably the act of founding the Crystarium could be construed as claiming new territory for a tribe, with the slight technicality that there's nobody else in the tribe... but it would be entirely for his own amusement as he's a world away from anyone who would recognise the claim. And in any case he's all but abandoned that identity and doesn't expect to ever reclaim it.

And now? He's no longer leader of the Crystarium and doesn't hold that territory, so he's lost any claim he might have had. Thus he defaults back to tia.


That said, for a while after 5.0 I was referring to him as "G'raha Exarch" when differentiating between him and his younger self, since it fit the pattern and calling him "the" Exarch seemed a bit impersonal, but I think then once we got the patch quests it was clearly how the characters continued to refer to him in person so I stopped doing that.

[Ilenya]

Oh God, the whole Tia/Nunh thing!! I was wondering if Graha would keep the Tia after being Exarch. It just didn't feel right to me. Also, gonna go tell Matoya where Shtola is. She should have visited by now.

In my head Y'shtola doesn't want to visit Matoya because she's afraid Matoya will see she went into the Flow again and spank her for it.

[DiaDeem]

In my head Y'shtola doesn't want to visit Matoya because she's afraid Matoya will see she went into the Flow again and spank her for it.

They're so alike though! Like master like student. I feel that in some ways, looking at Shtola is like looking at a younger Matoya and viceversa. I really love their relationship. Hope we get more of it in the future!