So I did the MSQ late last night so I went back over to Papalymo's narration and it is extremely vague. He says "I suspect that the ill tidings from Gry Albania will be held as a turning point--the beginning to a bloody end." Papalymo dosen't know how history could view it. He also says "When the time comes I will make my choice--and you will make yours." It could be that he is alive and narrating this from the end of Stormblood (and has seen that bloody end) or it could be that he suspected that everything would go south at the wall and left a letter or that we are in for Alexander-style timetravel shenanigans. It seems to me that his narration is directed at Yda, however. He definitely seems to be talking to someone not just writing a history (which could just be a red herring, true). His "choice" hadn't happened yet which makes me think that this is probably a letter (unless there is some other important decision for him to make that would take him on a separate path from Yda.) After all Papalymo asked for Tupsimati last patch and I think he thought that the Griffin could be planning to summon a primal and was hoping that he was just being paranoid. Ofc the fact that I want SE to stop setting up deaths for the Scions if they aren't going to commit could be coloring my interpretation just a tad.