There is still a recording on my computer if me streaming the beginning of shadowbringers blind, getting to meeting the exarch and the INSTANT it does the close up of him when he introduces himself, I just say out loud “wait..... G’raha????”
also about G'raha: he's a min height catboy, which is also a clue, since outside of lalafells (which he is very clearly not) and child characters, only male Miqo are capable of being that short
other people: I can never play catboy because of their arthritis hands me: literally never noticed the hands until people started complaining about them despite maining catboy
also I lvoe that when they came to the Source everyone was like 'we should take lore compliant names to fit in' and Ardbert felt left out and just dropped a letter
LIKE THERE'S NO INDICATION I'VE SEEN THAT FIRST MYSTEL FOLLOW THE TRIBE STRUCTER MIQOTE DO so I gotta wonder if she ever ran into any real J tribemates and had to improvise
𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚕 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗
: Well Beast Tribes aren't really a thing on the FIrst? Mechanically they are but in-universe, 'beast tribe' emerges from the laws of Ul'Dah, indicating those races which were not allowed access to the city's markets.
Like it was already becoming more clear when you go to the Far East and like. Yeah the Kojin, Namazu and Lupin are technically “beast men” but they’re really treated no differently than any other race
I really appreciate how ShB broke the pattern of 'the player character is the only one who can do anything important, so NPCs just cheer from the sidelines'.
"At journey's end, an opportunistic thief makes off with the hero's prize"is right out of the crystal tower quests, toowhoopsWarrior of Darkness Quana, Lightwarden Pragma
a catboy face
me: literally never noticed the hands until people started complaining about them despite maining catboy
the catboy squat + /hmm
I regularly disarm random people i get partied up with them
J'rhoomalewol/ardbert is not as common as i want it to beand who was the hero he got to meet with and interact with before going to sleep for a bajillion years? you
Also Urianger: refuses to tell you how he plans to get you to the ocean floor