Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
O-App Pesi technically was the CNJ's Guildmaster at Stillglade Fane back in 1.0 as E-Sumi Yan was until the moment the player arrived out in communion with the elementals in the forest, and was closely connected with 1.0's original Gridanian storyline - E-Sumi's unexpected return to Gridania was thus a sign something very bad was happening. Or at least, was until about ten years before the Calamity (when the Archons arrived, the event of which the player experienced through the Echo, but didn't realize it was in the past at that point).

And now in ARR, they seem to have swapped, with E-Sumi designated as the CNJ Guildmaster at Stillglade Fane with O-App in the forest communing with the elementals... at least until Odin brought him back and he's been in Quarrymill ever since.

Thanks, that's cleared up my confusion. I didn't take a massive amount of screenshots in 1.0, so don't often have as much resource to fall back on for any lore rooted in the pre-Yoshida era.
(For comparison, I have 98 gig of screenshots for 2.0 onwards. Comes in very handy when I need a specific line of dialogue!)