Revelations from Keynote II

[Iscah]

That is a really good reference shot, first off. Who? When? Where?

Where did I get the screenshot, you mean? Straight from the game - cutscene #1 for the quest "For Prosperity". Rammbroes is in the foreground with G'raha standing further back.

I had a thought not so long ago, and while the viability depends entirely on how they feel about retiring an old weekly quest, I was toying with the idea that G'raha would need to be using another name if he were to appear, mostly because his name is actually fairly generic, having been pulled from the Naming Conventions document without much thought (or is it there because it's his name?). What name would he be using, you ask? Noah.

Either he'd be borrowing it ironically, or he'd actually be taken over voluntarily (or involuntarily) as host for a certain Archmagus who spends most of his time drunkenly lounging around Revenant's Toll. Last we spoke with him, he seemed very interested in G'raha's present state, after all. And I bet he could find Nero's scanner.

That definitely could be possible. He was the one who originally proposed the name, too.

There aren't any quest rewards from it that you can't easily buy with poetics... or perhaps they could even add a different version of the quest dialogue so it's now the (somewhat bewildered) real Koh Rabntah that is giving out the quest once Noah finds a new host.

On a side note though, it seems that the original Noah was female - unless it's a translation error, the lorebook uses female pronouns when talking about her specifically and not Koh.



Re. naming patterns, I don't think there was a "lack of thought" when naming him, rather that there is simply a limited format that all male Seeker characters have to follow. The tribe-letter and Tia title are both required, so the writers only get to choose the exact tribe and his given name Raha.

The name generator isn't going to ever give the name _'raha Tia, because Raha is actually taken from the 'female surnames' list - technically also a male names list, but not one that will ever be given to players. The writers seem to like using this list rather than the generated male name list.