G'raha Tia

Gender: Male ♂
Age: 24
Race: Miqo'te (Seeker of the Sun)
Class: Archer
Job: Black Mage
Paladin
White Mage

Zone: The Rising Stones (6.1,6.0)
Birthplace: Corvos
Organization: The Students of Baldesion
NOAH
The Scions of the Seventh Dawn
The Crystarium
Services: Quest NPC
Patch: 2.1
Voiced by (JP): Yuma Uchida
Voiced by (EN): Jonathan Bailey
Voiced by (FR): Loïc Guingand
Voiced by (DE): Marcus Off

“

Well, I am a historian. And I have a certain, shall we say, “affinity” for the lore of the Allagan Empire.

— In-game description

G'raha Tia is a Miqo'te found in The Rising Stones.

Quests Started

Quest	Level	Quest Giver
Labyrinth of the Ancients	50	G'raha Tia
For Prosperity	50	G'raha Tia
The Wisdom of Allag	80	G'raha Tia
Reviving the Legacy	80	G'raha Tia
The Flames of War	80	G'raha Tia
A Trip to the Moon	83	G'raha Tia
Beyond the Depths of Despair	85	G'raha Tia
Return to the Crystarium	86	G'raha Tia
Once Forged	88	G'raha Tia
Vic┨οry ̈ ̈ ̈╳, │̆││ε Lost	90	G'raha Tia
┣┨̈//̈ No┨ΦounΔ•••	90	G'raha Tia
Hello, World	90	G'raha Tia

Quests Involved In

Quest	Level	Quest Giver
A Performance for the Ages	50	Rammbroes
Syrcus Tower	50	Rammbroes
The World of Darkness	50	Rammbroes
Reflections in Crystal	80	Ryne
Alisaie's Quest	80	Krile
Forget Us Not	80	Alisaie
Like Master, Like Pupil	80	Y'shtola
The Admiral's Resolve	80	Alphinaud
The Search for Sicard	80	Alphinaud
On Rough Seas	80	Alphinaud
The Great Ship Vylbrand	80	Merlwyb
Futures Rewritten	80	Alphinaud
Unto the Breach	80	Alisaie
Here Be Dragons	80	Alphinaud
Righteous Indignation	80	Estinien
For Vengeance	80	Restrainment Node
When the Dust Settles	80	Alphinaud
The Company We Keep	80	Alisaie
On Official Business	80	Alphinaud
Death Unto Dawn	80	Kan-E-Senna
Old Sharlayan, New to You	80	Krile
A Capital Idea	82	Krile
A Frosty Reception	82	Tataru
Amidst the Apocalypse	85	Mihleel
The Blasphemy Unmasked	85	Ahewann
Alzadaal's Legacy	90	Y'shtola

Additional Information

See also: Crystal Exarch and Crystal Tower

Lore

“

“It is those with an unyielding will who define the course of history.”
G’raha Tia’s bloodline can be traced back to the Third Astral Era, and a figure whose true name has been lost to the ages. Known only as “Desch,” Seekers of the Sun such as he were but a minor clan from the outskirts of Ilsabard. During the height of the Allagan empire, Desch was conscripted into the imperial army alongside his few brethren. The Miqo’te somehow gained the trust of princess Salina, and, as the era drew to a close, was entrusted with her blood and the secrets necessary to control the Crystal Tower. He survived the Fourth Umbral Calamity, and members of his family have since carried the royal line of Allag. With the passing of the ages, the ties to Desch and the emperor grew thin, with only one child in every generation born with the telltale Royal Eye. G’raha was shunned because of it, and began to study in Sharlayan to learn the origin of the trait, armed with naught save the many stories he inherited from his forebears. It was this study that saw him admitted to the Students of Baldesion. Now twenty-four years of age, G’raha enjoys being outdoors where he will oft curl up under the boughs of a shady arbor and read until sunfall. He also has a beautiful singing voice, though he performs mainly those melodies that have been passed down through his family.

— Encyclopædia Eorzea Volume I, page 201

“

The Allagan Eye - This crimson hue to one’s eye is a trait unique to G’raha Tia’s bloodline, manifesting only in those possessed of royal blood. It was called the Royal Eye in the Third Astral Era, but has become known as the Allagan Eye, as most who knew its true name perished in the calamitous events triggered by Xande’s actions.

— Encyclopædia Eorzea Volume I, page 201

A relatively recent addition to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, G'raha Tia hails from Corvos in southern Ilsabard, where the Allagan Empire once flourished during the Third Astral Era. Although the Miqo'te were once forced to toil in obscurity for the glory of Allag, G'raha Tia's tribe, ever proud, devoted themselves to the study and preservation of arcane secrets. Thousands of years later, when Corvos was conquered by the Garleans and brought under the jurisdiction of the illustrious House Darnus, a young G'raha--heir to vast stores of Allagan knowledge and the last child born with the Allagan Eye, was given to the custody of the Students of Baldesion. After acquiring Sharlayan citizenship and freedom from more mundane duties, G'raha concentrated on his education, earning his Archon's mark for his groundbreaking research into ancient arcane wisdom. Owing to these qualifications, G'raha Tia was tasked with the vital duty of investigating the Crystal Tower, the most fascinating and forbidding of the surviving relics of the Allagan Empire. It was during this expedition that he met with Rammbroes of the Sons of Saint Coinach, Cid Garlond of the Ironworks, and the Warrior of Light--an occasion which led to the formation of the fellowship known as NOAH.

With his newfound companions, he laid bare the secrets of ancient Allag, and learned from the awakened clones Unei and Doga that the mark he inherited was, in truth, the Royal Eye, the unmistakable mark of the Allagan imperial family. With it, he could control the Crystal Tower itself, per the wishes of Salina, the final princess of Allag, who had chosen to pass down this gift and place her trust in future generations.

Judging that mankind was not yet ready for the secrets of the Crystal Tower, G'raha Tia sealed himself within it, in the hope that he might awaken in an age when his fellow man had set aside their differences--when they might truly comprehend and wield the Allagan knowledge for the benefit of all.

Alas, when G'raha woke from his slumber two hundred years later, the world had been ravaged by tragedy and death, for the Eighth Umbral Calamity had come to pass. Biggs--third of his name and eighteenth chairman of Garlond Ironworks--had cracked the tower's wards, seeking to harness the power within to develop a means of time travel, that they might forge a future in which the Calamity had never occurred. G'raha agreed to lend them his aid, and so it was that he and the Crystal Tower were transported into the past-not of their world, the Source, but of the reflection known as the First, where fate would once again see him reunited with the Warrior of Light.

For a hundred years, the Crystal Exarch--as G'raha Tia had come to be known--laid the groundwork for the coming battle, for he had always known that he could not triumph without the Warrior of Light. When the time came, he summoned the champion and their allies--albeit accidentally--from the Source, assembling a formidable alliance to take up arms against the Lightwardens and reclaim the long-absent night sky.

The final step in G'raha Tia's plan would have seen him render up his own life for the preservation of the First and the Source. Blessedly, this sacrifice did not come to pass. Ultimately, the Warrior of Light and their brave companions succeeded in laying low the Ascians Emet-Selch and Elidibus, ending the threat of an Eighth Umbral Calamity and giving the First hope for a brighter tomorrow.

When the scions at last returned to their own world, they did not do so alone. G'raha Tia had concieved a method in which his memories and essence in the First could be merged with his past self still sleeping within the Crystal Tower of the Source. The awoken G'raha Tia eagerly joined the ranks of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn and proceeded to employ his invaluable guidance and support to his companions. In particular, his decisive actions in Thavnair during the Final Days ensured the survival of countless innocents.

After the de facto disbanding of the Scions, G'raha Tia joined Krile in helping to rebuild the Students of Baldesion. However, he has not yet shaken his wanderlust, and will not hesitate to seize any opportunity to embark upon a new journey with the Warrior of Light.

Transcribed from The Unending Codex: "G'raha" (Information is accurate as of Patch 6.2)

Images

G'raha Tia introducing himself to the Warrior of Light
G'raha Tia, with just one Royal Eye
Endwalker appearance