Quote Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage View Post
Were there other beast tribes living in the Shroud? Because it feels like, if the Ixali were not actively aggresive, we'd be seeing quite some trade between them and Gridania.
They actually did use to trade indirectly, there's an organisation called the Ashcrown Consortium that back in the 1.0 game used to facilitate a crystal trade between the humanoid races and the Beast Tribes. They're still around but the trade dried up when the City-States started hanging the Beast Tribes out to dry in the hopes that the Garleans would focus on them instead and the Beast Tribes started hoarding their crystals for summoning.