How G'raha Tia Learned to Dream Again | FFXIV Lore Analysis | Spoilers

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G’raha Tia has ever been a dreamer, longing to stand tall like the heroes of old. But how did the Crystal Tower put G’raha’s dreams on hold, and how did the Warrior of Light’s actions in Shadowbringers help him learn to dream again?

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12 thoughts on “How G'raha Tia Learned to Dream Again | FFXIV Lore Analysis | Spoilers”

  1. G'Raha was such a fun character when I first met him back at the end of ARR. I was sad when he had to leave the story, but was so thrilled when I met the (poorly-disguised) Crystal Exarch. He's a wonderful character who has a lot of heart to him. My personal favorite scene with his is during the 6.1 MSQ when he is in the Sharlayan library with the WoL and Y'Shtola. He wants to go on the adventure with the WoL so badly, but he doesn't want to be intrusive and ask directly.

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  2. The best thing about graha tia is even if he has lived a long live ( with the crystal tower) and now is a "fusion" between our graha tia and the old time traveling one. He is really cute ^^ I really like how tries to help us and is not just fan boying^^

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  3. despite G'raha being both 24 (ARR age), 124 (Crystal Exarch age), and 324 (200 years locked in the tower before the bad end timeline was changed), he's still a massive nerd and we love his nerdiness

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  4. Amazing analysis! I dont know why but the way you put together this essay made me tear up 😭G'raha is my favourite scion and I always love going on adventures with him. Now knowing that he is literally living his dream makes me appreciate him more whenever I choose him to come with me on adventures!

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  5. I've been playing since 2.0, so I had forgotten all about G'raha Tia until the big reveal at the end of the Innocence trial. It felt like a lifetime had passed for me.

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  9. I really like Graha. He is basically a big fanboy and nerd who want to go on adventure and you can see it when he joins the scions, he is really like " Oh my god, I'm finally doing it.". At the same time he is the one guy who broke time just to make sure that the 8th umbral calamity that would have killed us doesn't come to pass ( I still don't know which category his time travel fits, we had two stories with time loops, his time travel is different ). But he can also show us that he was a leader for a long time when the need arises like he did in Radz-at-Han.

    Oh and if you do Aldazaals Legacy with Trusts, him being there is a must. He wants to go on a freakin' adventure, its a crime to deny it to him.

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  11. Possible [6.1 SPOILERS] for any unassuming eyes:

    The bit about timelines and how G'raha didn't get erased from existence has me thinking of the Azem video. They set up right there with G'raha that in FFXIV there is very clearly not a single timeline and they continue to persist even when something would "prevent" it. Leading me to think that they simply split when things change. Which might mean there was a past where you were there in Elpis and one where you weren't. And a future that still exists with everything destroyed from black rose. With the exploration of the shards due to Yshtola's own desires, it kind of helps solidify the idea that we'll be exploring other timelines maybe in the distant future.

    FFXIV usually likes to have a moment of going in depth with how it explains the mechanics of the world (source and shards, aetherial currents, astral umbral energies), and although we've had at least 3 instances of time travel now we've yet to get a full explanation as to how its meant to work in full. Leaving room for an Emet/Exarch shards style explanation for the timelines itself, only done by someone else instead.

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