The Temple Knights of Ishgard

[Anonymoose]

When does this quote happen?

It's part of the Hey, buddy, how's it going? optional dialogue with Alberic between

Estinien making his re-appearance after re-mastering his control over the Eye's influence and the finale of the DRG storyline.

So Maelstrom was originally founded by Nym?

You know, I never really put much thought into it, but yeah, I guess that's a pretty fair assumption, right? You can see a slightly different version of the Twin Adder symbol in some Gelmorran ruins (even in Version 1.0), so there's that. Makes sense that each city would have inherited its company from an old city in the same area.

Unless... Maelstrom is known in Japanese as the 黒渦団 (Kurouzu-dan; Black Vortex Company). Void mages confirmed! (Not really.)

I'll add that to the list of Potentially Interesting Unknowns and we'll see if maybe we can convince the Powers that Be to open up about it.