Why isn't the Temple Knights of Ishgard a Grand Company by now?

[MetalSnakeXI1]

I think this is one of the places where we get a messy divide between the single-player story and collective MMORPG experience.

We-the-singular-Warrior-of-Light (and increasingly friend to all four high houses, depending on which side quests you’ve run) could probably be accepted into the Temple Knights if we wanted to be.

The hundreds of other adventurers who are not the Warrior of Light in your version of the story? Not so fast. They haven’t proven themself like you did.

It’s not impossible for them to set up a ‘GC wing’ of the knights in future, with looser standards on who can join. Although it would potentially get messy lore-wise to have it there in plain sight for new players coming up through Heavensward.

I know that the story concerns only the WoL controlled by the player not the others...I didn't mean to include other warriors by saying "We" I mostly refer to our experience

As for things getting messy....doubt it.Cuz after a certain rank your GC would encourage you to try the other GCs if you want to so if players didn't up their ranks by the time they get to HW content then Ishgard would be their introduction to that concept...which would encourage them to go back and get their GC promotions if they didn't do so before