I think Estinien got spirited away by Nidhogg, rather than simply fleeing, but yeah. He didn't die there, just vanished for a while.

That whole plot did ideally need some tweaking as of Heavensward, though – mostly the thing with us somehow manifesting as the legendary Haldrath. But it also would have been better post-questline if Alberic said afterwards that Estinien had reappeared and seemed recovered from Nidhogg's possession, rather than that he was missing, since Aymeric was able to call on him just fine.


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Sort of more on topic, I wonder how many baby lancers are confused by Foulques being able to use Ring of Thorns to create ice puddles in the level 30 Lancer fight. We haven't had Ring of Thorns in a long time.
Why would they be confused? Enemies use skills we don't have all the time, and he's clearly been learning the art longer and knows more skills than we do.

If anything, a new player is less likely to know it was something that the class once had access to.