G'raha Tia

G'raha Tia is a non-playable character from Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. He is a historian and marksman with the Students of Baldesion introduced in the Crystal Tower storyline.

Appearance and Personality
G'raha is a male mi'qote with reddish brown hair and a fairly muscular build. He is somewhat eccentric, initially playing a game with the player while gathering the aethersand, and rather whimsically naming the combined investigation team after an ancient Allagan sage.

Story
G'raha is first encountered off-screen during the quest "A Performance for the Ages," where he tells the player the water-blessed ore sought in Urth's Gift was already claimed by him, and instead points the player to find wind aethersand shipment at the Ixali Logging Grounds in North Shroud. After fighting off the beastmen to claim the prize, the "unseen voice" congratulates the player for an entertaining and tells him to look at Proud Creek for the reward. The item turns out to be water aethersand, with him promising they will "meet again soon."

Sure enough, once the player returns the sand to Cid and Rammbroes back in Mor Dhona, the familiar voice returns and introduces himself as the historian G'raha Tia of the Students of Baldesion. Rammbroes indirectly apologizes and explains he will be assisting with the investigation of the Crystal Tower. G'raha dubs the new investigation team NOAH (“Nominated Observers of Artifacts Historical”), after an ancient Allagan scholar.

Trivia

 * The name he coined for the investigation of the Crystal Tower, NOAH, is an allusion to Noah from Final Fantasy III.