Quote Originally Posted by MrKusabi View Post
(also the weird decision to have him have a completely different accent, but that's a separate gripe).
I think the underlying reason actually stems from exactly what I said in the first reply, to bring things back to the topic: they weren't writing him for Dawntrail in Endwalker. They didn't write him or cast him knowing he'd be from Tural (in fact, a few of us noticed his Endwalker short story was edited after publishing to remove a mention of his name origin that doesn't line up with Dawntrail). And then naturally we get into a weird situation where the English localization specifically has been painted into a corner, because only English gave him a noticeably different accent.

I could come up with a fitting explanation for why he's got that, he was hiding where he was from when he was in Sharlayan so it makes total sense why he adopted a new accent. But I'm not gonna pretend they explained it.