Quote Originally Posted by Dalvy View Post
DRG: Estinien stole the Eye because he thinks Alberic failed as an Azure Dragoon. You get picked to be special instead and that made him mad and pretty damn murderous. Somehow he survived and now we have to be friends.
Estinien was on pretty friendly terms with us for the duration of the DRG Job Quests, up until the end when he was corrupted by Nidhogg and convinced that he needed to slay Alberic for the mistakes that ended up destroying his hometown - and even then, the only reason he fought with us is because we stood in the way of his revenge on Alberic. If we assume that Nidhogg's madness passed after we defeated him, there's no reason for him to not treat us cordially when we meet again. Or us, him, for that matter. We're forgiving like that.

As for why the Ishgardians would be on good terms with Estinien in spite of the fact that he stole such a precious relic - well, they never new. Alberic kept the whole thing on the down-low to protect Estinien. I don't know if he was able to cover up the relic's theft, but he DID prevent people from learning that Estinien did it.