Quote Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal View Post
The WoL worked with G'raha Tia during the Crystal Tower questline for all of 1 or 2 hours.
Fenral already picked on this but I want to echo it, because even if you don't count for the "year and a half of real-world time" that the quest presentation spanned, the time we as a player spend doing the quests seems to be massively shortened from the time that the characters actually spend on things.

It doesn't get touched on much, since the passage of time is kept vague, but the best example I know of is early in Heavensward when Cid rescues you from Bismarck, and he explains that he came to the Sea of Clouds on business and learned that you had arrived "some days before" him - indicating that even though we-the-player have been there for maybe an hour or so, that has taken our character a few days of time we simply don't experience in the game. All the inbetween mundane things like meals and sleep and time to rest, and probably all the odd jobs we're constantly running for people.

So for a similar time frame, we must have spent days or weeks directly working with the NOAH team, plus however much time fits into the gaps between quests. Certainly long enough for us to think of G'raha as someone we have known for quite a while, if intermittently, by the time he seals himself in the tower.