Quote Originally Posted by ObsidianFire View Post
I'm pretty sure the person we are talking to in the portal space is not G'raha Tia. And not just because SE didn't stick Mi'qote ears on him. We see him in the 1st Shard's CT in the trailer and it feels like he doesn't know a lot of stuff G'raha should know. Including who we are (not our role as the WoL, but who we are as a character) and how our CT is sealed up from the inside.

It could be that SE is just being really obtuse with how they handle introducing him G'raha Tia again, but I'd think he'd react differently to seeing us again if it really was G'raha. It just feels like he knows us by what role we play and not as the person who helped kill Xanded and the Cloud of Darkness and make sure there wasn't a portal to the Void at the top of Crystal Tower with him. Also... G'raha should be sleeping in the tower... If it really is him, then either he's not sleeping in the Source's CT anymore, or he is and he's messing around with time travel from the future or being in two places at once, both of which I'm not too hot on.
If it is meant to be G'raha, I think he does know us, he's just pretending not to. He doesn't want us to know it's him at this point. (If you choose to ask "who are you?" at the prompt, he tells you that's not important right now.)

Alternately, it's slippery double-purpose scripting that allows for either that interpretation OR the player genuinely not knowing him, without needing to include variable dialogue.

And the text slide at the end does say something about travelling across "time and space" - though it's worth noting that Minfilia also uses that phrase both times you meet her in the Aetherial Sea.

And as I linked earlier, whether it is or isn't him, it is certainly a male Miqo'te NPC who matches G'raha's appearance perfectly.

But there's still room for uncertainty, and I'll be referring to him as Enigma until we know for sure whether it's him or a lookalike.

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