Quote Originally Posted by Kuwagami View Post
Merlwyb, and the "gunner" blazon as well, have been here since 1.0. Merlwyb using guns and stuff, was a tease for 1.0's musketeer (or so I believe).
Merlwyb didn't show up until after Yoshida took over. She was introduced along Raubhan and Kan E Senna to take over the grand companies for the three starting nations. There's a reason they made articles about them when grand companies were implemented, which was also after Yoshida took over.
Then comes an officer from the yellowjackets, using a gun. In my opinion (read it as my own conclusions) it's just an other reference to the origins of Limsa. Yeah she's using a gun, but so is Merlwyb and Merlwyb isn't teasing gun job anymore.
Considering the only allusion to the musketeer guild prior to that was the head of the yellowjackets showing up during a lv15 quest, it's odd they sort of vanish and now you have a reminder that they exist in the rogue storyline. Milala aside, one of the quests did involve the recovery of muskets for the yellowjackets. This could have been ANYTHING else but they chose to have it be muskets for the yellowjackets. Much like how the treaty blade from the Hildibrand quests was a greatsword, and sometime after we got DRK.