G'Raha Tia

Race: Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te, a cat-like humanoid. Initial role: A member of the Students of Baldesion who studies the Crystal Tower. The Crystal Exarch: In the future, he becomes the Crystal Exarch, a powerful figure who waits for centuries in the Crystal Tower to help the Warrior of Light.

Shadowbringers: He is a key ally to the player in the Shadowbringers expansion, where he is revealed to be the Crystal Exarch. Scion of the Seventh Dawn: After the events of Shadowbringers, he joins the Scions of the Seventh Dawn as a permanent member.

Personality: He is known for his enthusiasm, loyalty, and a deep desire to help the Warrior of Light. Abilities: He is a powerful mage with a wide range of abilities, though his powers are tied to the Crystal Tower.

G'raha Tia was born in Corvos in southern Ilsabard, where the ancient Allagan Empire once flourished during the Third Astral Era. Long ago the Allagan Empire brought many tribes of Miqo'te there to serve as slaves. During the empire's last years G'raha's ancestor, Desch, was entrusted with safekeeping the royal bloodline by Allag's princess Salina. Desch's descendants would occasionally be born with one red eye, the Allagan Eye, as a sign of this legacy. While many Miqo'te returned to Eorzea during the Age of Endless Frost that froze the seas, G'raha's tribe remained in Corvos to protect the Allagan technology there from being misused.

Thousands of years later, G'raha was the last child born with the Allagan Eye, and made fun of by the other children of his tribe for having two different-colored eyes.

When the Garlean Empire conquered Corvos and the imperial House Darnus began searching for Allagan relics, the tribe feared being discovered and buried their ties to ancient Allag. As a bearer of the Allagan Eye, G'raha was sent to Sharlayan and entrusted to the custody of friends in 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 duty of investigating the Crystal Tower, the most fascinating and forbidding of the surviving relics of the Allagan Empire. To pass the magick barriers at the entrance to the Crystal Tower, the Warrior of Light was tasked with acquiring elemental-charged aethersand from various sources. G'raha's unseen voice told the Warrior he had already claimed the water-blessed ore sought in Urth's Gift.[2] He directed the Warrior to find a wind aethersand shipment at the Ixali Logging Grounds in North Shroud. After fighting off the beastmen to claim the prize, the "unseen voice" congratulated the Warrior of Light for being entertaining and told them to inspect Proud Creek for the reward. The item turned out to be water aethersand, with G'raha promising they would "meet again soon". Once the Warrior of Light returned the sand to Cid Garlond and Rammbroes back in Mor Dhona, G'raha Tia formally introduced himself and dubbed the Crystal Tower investigation team NOAH ("Nominated Observers of Artifacts Historical"), after an ancient Allagan scholar.

Later meeting Doga and Unei, G'raha Tia learned that he possessed the lineage of Allagan nobility. After the Cloud of Darkness abducted Doga, Unei, and Nero at the top of the Crystal Tower, taking them into the World of Darkness, G'raha returned to camp with the rest of NOAH to figure out a way to rescue them.

Once Cid opened a portal to the World of Darkness, G'raha ventured through it with the Warrior of Light. Upon the Cloud of Darkness's defeat, they discovered Doga and Unei who intended to remain to sever the Cloud's ties to Eorzea. Before sending the group off, the duo infused a portion of their blood into G'raha to grant him control over the Crystal Tower. This allowed G'raha to learn Salina's last will, an ancient princess who had used Allagan technology to infuse her DNA into G'raha's ancestor so that his family could restore the tower as a beacon of hope. G'raha sealed the Crystal Tower with himself inside, intending to guide the Eorzeans once they had reached the same technological level as the ancient Allagans

By the time the Crystal Tower was reopened two centuries into the future, G'raha had partially fused with the tower to prolong his life as its keeper. He learned of the Eighth Umbral Calamity that had claimed the lives of the Warrior of Light and the Scions of the Seventh Dawn along with the endless conflict that had followed. Acting on a hypothesis proposed by Cid, G'raha sent himself and the Crystal Tower to the First some time after the Flood of Light had occurred there, the catalyst that had allowed the Umbral Calamity to unfold on the Source. Taking on the identity of the "Crystal Exarch", G'raha established the city of Crystarium as a haven for the people of Lakeland.

G'raha attempted to summon the Warrior of Light to the First via the Calling, but ended up summoning the other Scions instead. Due to the time difference between the Source and the First, the latter being a parallel world of the former, the Scions ended up appearing years apart from each other. G'raha confided in Urianger Augurelt, telling him everything, and asking him to be his accomplice in a scheme to prevent the First's Umbral Calamity—with full knowledge that the negation of the Eighth Umbral Calamity on the Source would erase him and send the Scions back to their world fully restored.

When the Warrior of Light finally arrived on the First, G'raha, in the guise of the Crystal Exarch, acted as the Scions' guide and leader, directing their efforts in defeating the Lightwardens. When the final Lightwarden was defeated, G'raha revealed his plan all along had been to steal the light that the Warrior had absorbed from the Lightwardens. With it, he would transport himself and the Crystal Tower to the Dimensional Rift where the light could be safely expunged, killing him and returning the Scions to the Source. Emet-Selch thwarted the plan, having figured out his true identity. When the Warrior prepared to battle Emet-Selch, G'raha used his powers to summon heroes from other worlds to fight alongside them. After Emet-Selch's defeat, G'raha returned to Crystarium where he continued to aid the Scions in finding a way to return to the Source.

In time, G'raha, with the help of Beq Lugg, worked out a method to send the stranded Scions back to the Source using crystals infused with his own blood. He created spirit vessels for each Scion, plus an additional one for himself, intending to take the first as a safety precaution. However, drawing upon the Crystal Tower's energy to such a degree caused G'raha's body to further crystallize.

The Ascian Elidibus seized G'raha's spirit vessel and used it to conduct the Crystal Tower and summon spectral versions of otherworldly heroes, having them relentlessly hunt down the Warrior from the Source, who in averting the Flood of Light on the First had gained the moniker "Warrior of Darkness". Coming to the Warrior's aid as they overpowered Elidibus, G'raha used the last of his strength to finish the Ascian off, using the Crystal Tower like White Auracite. G'raha gave the Warrior of Darkness his spirit vessel containing his soul and memories, content to having fulfilled his mission. He cryptically hinted to the Warrior honoring his last request before fully crystallizing.

After the Warrior brought the Scions back to the Source, they revived the still-resting G'raha at the Crystal Tower, which was warded with Krile's assistance. Days after recuperating from being fused with his future self's soul and memories, G'raha pledged himself to the Scions as their newest member and agreed to accompany them on future adventures.

G'raha then accompanied the Warrior of Light and Alisaie in search of the tempering cure.

G'raha and his fellow Scions departed to Sharlayan to learn about the coming of the Final Days. He accompanied the Warrior of Light on a tour of the city, and joined the group of Y'shtola, Alisaie, Alphinaud, and Krile of learning the Forum's plan. While investigating at the Studium's library, he was caught due to his use of floating magick and the Scions were brought to the Forum for questioning.

After getting banned of researching the Forum's goal, G'raha joined the Scions to storm the Tower of Zot where he stayed behind to heal the kidnapped Arkasodaras. After Estinien destroyed the tower's core, the structure disappeared and G'raha used a mass floating magick to save everyone inside it.

G'raha joined his fellow Scions and the Eorzean Alliance at storming Garlemald as Ilsabardian Contingent. He stayed alongside Y'shtola at the contingent's main base of operation for providing succor. When Zenos Galvus used the Warrior of Light's body to infiltrate the contingent, G'raha realized the ploy and stormed the Tower of Babil alongside the Scions.

After the Warrior of Light returned from Mare Lamentorum, G'raha visited their room and the two talked about their promises to have an adventure together. The next day, Final Days fell upon Thavnair and G'raha stormed the forest of Vanaspati alongside his comrades. When the beasts of the Final Days attacked Radz-at-Han in full, G'raha resumed the Crystal Exarch persona to rally the civilians. With the crises averted for now, G'raha had an idea to research Final Days' cause by consulting the soul of Elidibus trapped inside the Crystal Tower on the First.

Some time later, the Final Days fell upon Garlemald. G'raha and his fellow Scions arrived to help the refugees there. Afterward, they were brought back to Sharlayan where the Warrior of Light explained what they had learned in Elpis.

After helping the Forum with the Starship Ragnarok's aetherial engine, the Scions used the Aitiascope to meet with Hydaelyn herself. She commended G'raha for his efforts of uniting the people of the First during a moment of hopelessness.

Following the Final Days' aversion, G'raha joined Krile in her efforts to rebuild the Students of Baldesion.

While assisting in the rebuild, G'raha was stuck with a variety of administrative tasks. The Warrior of Light approached G'raha, intending to recruit him on an expedition to the ruins of the Bounty. Krile, sensing G'raha was resisting the urge to ditch his work to go on an adventure, gave him permission. G'raha gladly accepted, and assisted in recruiting Y'shtola and Urianger to the expedition. During it, G'raha learned that the secret of the ruins was a voidgate to the Thirteenth created at Vrtra's request. He offered his insight into how the soul gets corrupted from overexposure to extreme amounts of a specific type of aether, but attempted to soften his comments when he realized he was being insensitive to Vrtra. He assisted Vrtra in getting a sense of the current difficulties facing the people of Thavnair: the extended closure of ports and lack of able-bodied sailors is ruining the economy and the rise in the number of orphans, which was a result of the Final Days. He also assisted the Warrior of Light and Deryk gather information about the Phantom Realm and the Twelve. He also played a part in the Crystal Tower Deep Dungeon; unlocking the tower for the Warrior of Light to explore.

Krile and G'raha called the Warrior of Light to Sharlayan out of request from Erenville, as he wanted the Warrior to meet someone. The three then met Erenville, who had gone to Tural, the New World, and his associate hailed from there. They then met Wuk Lamat, adoptive daughter of the ruler of Tuliyollal, a nation that governed in Tural. She wanted the Warrior to come with her to Tural to take part in a rite of succession, but G'raha told her to slow down. He wondered about the rite, since Mamool Ja were the ones ruling in Tural, but Wuk Lamat claimed that Tuliyollal is culturally diverse, and even though she wasn't a daughter by blood, she still had every intention of winning. In order to get to know the Warrior better, she suggested they go on a hunt together, and Erenville suggested they take on a petition to the Island of Haam. G'raha agreed and Krile went to do some preparations and would join soon.

At the island, G'raha, the Warrior and Wuk Lamat hunted down normally docile creatures and a giant colibri. They managed to put it down, but it got back up, and Krile finished it off with her skills of pictomancy she had been studying ever since the Final Days were averted. G'raha asked what inspired her to make this change, and she explained she didn't want to remain behind like she did, when the Scions descended to the aetherial sea in search of Hydaelyn and when they embarked to Ultima Thule. She then asked Wuk Lamat to confirm the authenticity of the letter she found, addressed to her grandfather, Galuf. Wuk Lamat confirmed the letter was authentic, even though it was written in Eorzean rather than Turali. They then took the bird to be eaten, although G'raha was uncertain.

At Last Stand, the companions ate and Wuk Lamat told them about the rite, and was determined to win in order to make sure one certain contestant doesn't as he was an ambitious warmonger, who was keen to invade eastern continents now that Garlean Empire is no longer a threat. G'raha asked if it was even allowed for foreigners to take part in an internal Tuliyollal affair. Wuk Lamat said it was actually encouraged, since the leader of Tuliyollal would have to be able to rule over the many races and different cultures that inhabit the nation. She again addressed the Warrior to join her, but G'raha first suggested they get some background information about Tural first.

In the Noumenon, G'raha and Warrior read a number of tomes about Tural, and discussed the matter outside. Alphinaud and Alisaie found them there as well, as they were seeking knowledge about how the Garleans might better be able to form relations with its neighbors. The Warrior and G'raha explained what they were doing, and it inspired the twins. While heading back to Baldesion Annex, G'raha told the Warrior that despite everything they had heard so far, he felt they still hadn't heard everything, but both were intrigued to learn more. After all, Tural was still largely unknown to Eorzea. G'raha then went to the agora to purchase something, where he ran to Alphinaud and Alisaie again, and they expressed an interest in meeting Wuk Lamat. Wuk Lamat was happy to accept their help as well. G'raha then encouraged worrying Krile to leave the Students of Baldesion to his and Ojinka's care, as he insisted that Krile follow in his grandfather's footsteps, as an opportunity like this is rare. He then showed everyone the thing he bought at the agora: the current map of the world, which showed the next destination of their great adventure west of Sharlayan - Tural.

G'raha Tia arrived in Tuliyollal alongside Y'shtola after Tuliyollal came under attack by mysterious, high-tech army led by Zoraal Ja from a dome that suddenly appeared in Yyasulani in Xak Tural. They had been called by Krile to ascertain recent events and come up with plan to proceed. Krile then told everyone about the late Gulool Ja Ja told Wuk Lamat, Koana and her about when he and his companions discovered the golden city. Twenty years ago, Gulool Ja Ja had called Galuf Baldesion to help investigating the matter, when all of a sudden a gate appeared and it opened from another side. From the gate, two Lalafells appeared, carrying a baby and a mysterious artifact. Galuf took the baby and raised her as his own, while the artifact was held by Gulool ja Ja, until it was stolen recently. From this, it was determined that the baby was Krile and that the gate led to another reflection. As Krile also determined that the forces, who attacked Tuliyollal were somehow connected to the golden city, she called to G'raha and Y'shtola for their expertise, G'raha in particular due to his expertise with reflections, particularly with the First.

Wuk Lamat and the Scions ventured to Shaaloani to investigate the dome, where Y'shtola determined that the dome was made out of high concentrations of lightning aether and that touching the dome is fatal. The railroad engineers of Shaaloani came up with an idea to transform their locomotive into a bomb by loading it with ceruleum and reinforcing it with defenses and weaponry. G'raha suggested arming the train with aetheric cannons derived from the cannons used in Crystarium. After the train was ready, G'raha used Vanish-spell to make the train invisible for a time, so that it wouldn't become an instant target for the enemy. He joined the Warrior, Wuk Lamat, Krile, Alisaie and Erenville to assault the dome

When the Vanish-spell faded, the train came under attack by the enemy. The heroes managed to hold them off until they reached the end of the line. The train smashed into the garrison protecting the dome, granting the heroes access inside. They fought their way through the garrison and made it to the other side. What they discovered was unprecented: the region was nothing like Yyasulani Erenville had left behind, before he came to Sharlayan. The buildings there were supposed to be only few years old, but now it seemed they had been standing there abandoned for decades. As the heroes ventured further to Erenville's home town, which was now in ruins, they encountered Sphene, who claimed to be the Queen of Reason of Alexandria. From what Sphene told them, G'raha Tia theorized that part of the reflection beyond the gate within Skydeep Cenote had fused with the Source, similar to how a Rejoining took place after every Umbral Calamity, but in a more localized fashion. G'raha suspected that due to time disparaties between reflections the buildings around the region, now known as Heritage Found, had aged so much in such a short time. As Sphene led the heroes to the outskirts of Everkeep, they learned from the people that even though the dome appeared only days ago for them, within the dome thirty years had passed, confirming G'raha's suspicions.

Sphene directed the heroes to Cahciua, Erenville's mother, who was operating a machine. Cahciua was the leader of a resistance group called Oblivion that stood against Zoraal Ja. They explained to heroes the use of soul regulators that most people wear in Alexandria. The regulators act as devices that utilize soul cells in different ways, allowing a person to be revived should they get killed by an accident or in a fight, they would not prevent death from old age. Secondly, when a person dies, the regulators erase the people's memories of that person, so that they would not have to feel pain and sorrow of loss. The memory of the person is stored in a "cloud". Thridly, the regulators can be used to empower oneself with a soul cell of a beast, granting the person the beast's properties for a time. The heroes had reservations about this, since this was in violation of how souls travel between the living and aetherial sea, but to the people Alexandria, this was normal. The material called electrope made all this possible.

Sphene granted the adventurers access to Solution Nine, the ninth level of Everkeep. Astonished, G'raha explored the place with Alisaie and later rendezvoused in the Backroom, Oblivion's headquarters. While there, the communications officer, Shale, noticed Krile's earring was actually a data storage device made from electrope. She offered to examine it and G'raha also began to look at the data to learn more about interdimensional fusion, while the Warrior, Wuk Lamat, and Alisaie went to search for Gulool Ja, Zoraal Ja's son.

When Zoraal Ja ordered Alexandrians to be killed and their souls harvested after the failed invasion to Tuliyollal, G'raha and Krile went to protect the people and were joined by the Warrior, Wuk Lamat, and Alisaie. Alisaie told them to provide healing for the people while the rest dealt with Zoraal Ja's remaining forces.

After stopping the carnage, Cahciua gathered everyone in the Backroom to plan the assault on Zoraal Ja's chambers. He had retreated to the eleventh level and shut down the elevators. The soul refining facility Origenics, was still functioning and still acted as a way to reach the eleventh level. G'raha was amazed to hear that Origenics functioned similar to how souls are cleansed within the aetherial sea, but without having contact with it. G'raha joined the Warrior, Wuk Lamat, Alisaie, and Krile in assaulting Origenics, reaching the eleventh level where they found Everkeep's soul repository. Many of the storage units were empty, meaning Zoraal Ja had absorbed them. They were reinforced by Alphinaud, Y'shtola, and Estinien to help dealing with Zoraal Ja.

In the next chamber, they found a massive dimensional gate leading to the unknown reflection. Zoraal Ja was also there, having become powerful by all the souls he absorbed, yet it had destroyed his sanity. The heroes engaged him, and despite his power, he was defeated. Sphene appeared, declaring her intention to drain the Source of aether to ensure the continuing existence of her people, the Endless, and she fled through the gate along with the key, closing it behind her and denying the heroes means to follow her. Cahciua's robot body stopped functioning, making everyone realize she, too, was an Endless.

Returning to Tuliyollal, the Scions, Wuk Lamat, Koana, Shale, and Gulool Ja determined Sphene had retreated to the Living Memory, and that their only means of following her was the gate within Skydeep Cenote. Everyone journeyed there, where Krile attempted to use the earring to open the gate, but the terminal denied access. Shale suggested Gulool Ja give it a try, and his new authority as the king of Alexandria allowed the gate to open. Y'shtola, with the assistance of Alphinaud and Alisaie, conjured up spells to keep the gate open. G'raha asked if he should too, but Y'shtola told him he should join the expedition team in case the gate closed behind them, due to his experience with interdimensional travel. G'raha entered Living Memory alongside the Warrior, Wuk Lamat, Krile, and Erenville, the physical form of the fabled golden city.

The expedition was directed to Meso Terminal to talk with Sphene and attempt to stop her peacefully. Even though Sphene acknowledged her actions were brutal, she refused to reconsider, even after G'raha told her her actions would only delay the inevitable. Even if she succeeded in gathering the necessary aether to sustain the Endless by harvesting all the living souls, at some point she would find no more souls to harvest. Despite their efforts to reason with her, Sphene began to erase her memories to ensure her kind personality would not serve as a hindrance to her goal and retreated inside Meso Terminal. The expedition could not follow her.

As the expedition considered their next move, they met Cahciua. She requested they erase the Endless, as she felt their hollow existence defied the natural order. They agreed, but decided to learn more about them first. As G'raha and the Warrior explored Canal Town, they were offered popcorn. While it had texture, it had no flavor. To not blow their cover, they pretended to like it. They got the feeling when talking with the Endless that many of them were content to be erased, should it come to it. They went on a gondol ride, where G'raha reminisiced about the moment, he advised the Warrior to be true to themselves, as they contemplated about going to Tural. Finally, the expedition shut off the Hydro terminal maintaining the Endless in Canal Town.

Following the shutting down the Geo terminal, they proceeded to Asule Volcano, where they encountered Krile's birth parents as Endless. Krile had trouble speaking with them, until G'raha broke the ice between them. They learned that the Milalla came to the unlost world from the Source to escape the Fifth Umbral Calamity and later their involvement with the mysterious Preservation group that had created the Endless. Objecting to Preservation's full intent to plunder worlds for aether to sustain the Endless, their way of life and of the possibility of experimenting on an infant Krile upon learning that she possessed the Echo, Krile's parents sought to frustrate their plans. Gathering the interdimensional key and their daughter, with heavy heart, they left both within in the Source. Having gained the knowledge they needed, Krile shut down the Pyro Terminal after bidding farewell to her parents.

After bidding farewell to Cahciua and shutting down the Aero terminal, the way to Meso Terminal was now open. They had to hurry, as Sphene was almost ready to enact her plan. Inside Meso Terminal, the expedition made their way through physical manifestations of Sphene's memories and the terminal's security systems. Reaching the core, they learned that Sphene had erased her memories, and now only saw the expedition as entities to be removed. She kicked G'raha, Krile, and Wuk Lamat out, leaving the Warrior to engage her alone. Using the crystal of Azem, the Warrior managed to defeat her, and Sphene acknowledged that G'raha was right about the inevitability of being unable to sustain the Endless forever. She bid farewell to her kingdom and gave the key to the Warrior.

G'raha returned with everyone to Tuliyollal to celebrate, where he tried a taco for the first time, and was stunned how delicious it was before Alisaie dragged him off.