Quote Originally Posted by Dikatis View Post
This I disagree with. G'raha's whole thing at this point is living on and helping others live on after living through two apocalypses and being burdened by the weight of duty for several centuries. He's an old man in a young body with a second lease on life and it'd be frankly insulting to suddenly kill him for shock value. He may not be "necessary" for the current plot, but killing him now would spit on his arc in Shadowbringers. Besides, if we're doing Meracydia in a future expansion, his Allag expertise is second-to-none and he'd be pretty much the perfect companion for it.
There's also Corvos, which he dropped by name during Endwalker (he's the first person to namedrop it, I think) stating an intent to return someday for closure and... hasn't really brought up since. The main purpose there was probably to give us the tiniest bit of emotional investment once it became an off-screen casualty of the Final Days, and it got namedropped again in the Role Quest capstone, but it still hasn't been visited since by any Scion besides Thancred and Urianger.

My assumption is that it would have been one of our six zones in the (imaginary) Garlean expac between Shadowbringers and Endwalker, but for the time being it remains one of the few named locations on maps of Ilsabard, albeit still covered by the eternal fog of war. So long as we haven't been there, there's still a possibility we could go there, and there really isn't a good reason to kill him off before then.

I'm still kind of surprised the writing never leaned more into the adventurer-archaeologist archetype he was introduced as, though. Or played up the Bard aspect a bit more: he could and should be our chronicler. Also that he hasn't touched a bow since his first cutscene appearance despite caster DPS already being covered by, well, everyone but Thancred and Estinien at this point. At least he has a hair color.