Do you think one of the Scions will die on Dawntrail

[Cleretic]

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.

I feel like there's an argument to be made that Shadowbringers was the worst thing to happen to G'raha Tia as a unique character. Because all of those things are there from his inception in the Crystal Tower storyline... and they all just get subsumed by Shadowbringers going 'actually he's a super-old but also super-young wizard who's weirdly parasocial towards your character'. Like, none of these unique elements of him actually retain after that point aside from him being able to occasionally cite Allagan tech.

His run as the Crystal Exarch is actually really good, I like that part of Shadowbringers (although I don't think any of it aside from the Crystal Tower connection needed or used G'raha as he already existed), but the G'raha they left behind afterwards isn't Crystal Tower G'raha by any metric except appearance; he's a male Backup Y'shtola. Which is a huge waste, because we've got like, three Backup Y'shtolas and the first one's still perfectly good at her job.

[Fenral]

I feel like there's an argument to be made that Shadowbringers was the worst thing to happen to G'raha Tia as a unique character. Because all of those things are there from his inception in the Crystal Tower storyline... and they all just get subsumed by Shadowbringers going 'actually he's a super-old but also super-young wizard who's weirdly parasocial towards your character'. Like, none of these unique elements of him actually retain after that point aside from him being able to occasionally cite Allagan tech.

I... can't really argue with that actually. I still like the G'raha we have, but the original appeal of male Miqo'te in their debut "expansion" was their whole playful trickster vibe that set them apart from the other playable options we had at the time (also that there were less than 10 of them in all of 2.X). They were the truest of catboys: boys who act like cats. One moment they want attention, but look away for a second and they're up on the cabinets. It's definitely something I miss from the old days.