Was Once a Man: He, like many others, caught The Virus and was turned into a Tonberry.Tragic Monster: He fell ill and was changed while trying to help people, was sealed away with the rest of the sick, and the almost drowned and left to stew in that rancor for 1500 years.
Which means he must've been rather old even before the Green Death struck Nym. Older Than They Look: He spent a lot of it in some kind of stasis, but as the Encyclopedia Eorzea states, he's something on the order of sixteen hundred years old, making him one of the oldest friendly characters in the entire game.Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: He and the other Scholars were sealed away after being turned into monsters by the very people they were trying to avoid undergoing the same fate.Affectionate Nickname: Refers to the faerie that accompanies the player as his Sun.And if you watch carefully after beating the first boss in the dungeon, he makes a guest appearance. If you've completed the Scholar quest chain when you return to the Wanderer's Palace, you'll learn from the adventurer couple that petitions you to save the tonberries that Surito has been helping his tonberry brethren after the death of the Tonberry King released them from their rancor. He's actually a Lalafell Scholar from Nym before it fell 1500 years ago and the former owner of the Scholar Soul Crystal as well as the former partner of the faerie that came with it, Lily.
While she does use more complex words, she's hardly incomprehensible when compared to other scholars like Severian.ĭiscipline: ScholarA Tonberry found in the Wanderer's Palace that acts as the boss of the quest The Beast Within. She speaks with a refined and scholarly tone that stands in stark contrast to her fellow Lominsans' regional accent.