Oh, I had it exactly backwards. Alphinaud asks about "shouldn't he be a Nunh" and Y'shtola (possibly deliberately) misunderstands his admittedly poor phrasing and says "sure you can stop calling him Tia and just say G'raha, but I'm not"

and answered as though he were asking about the Tia/Nunh debate, citing the Crystarium herself.

Of course, the real moment he became G'raha Fucking Nunh to me was in Thavnair when he went full Exarch. I stared at that man and declared him a leader of his people, whoever they might be at any moment.

Did Alphinaud even mention the Crystarium? I haven't seen that dialogue in a bit so I could be misremembering, but my memory was Alphinaud was more asking "99% of all male Miqo'te have the same surname, do we really have to call him G'raha Tia every single time?" and Y'shtola misinterpreted (cont'd)

existential dread: it’s funnier when it’s coming from a tiny blue scottish pictsie

Northeast. Waymarks are clock spots, so you start at the top of the clock and assign them clockwise.

I'm more likely to place 1 north than northwest.