Quote Originally Posted by DiaDeem View Post
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.