Quote Originally Posted by ShinChuck View Post
That seems to be what it boils down to! That doesn't even seem explain why we can *randomly* do it, and they cannot. I understand leves being sanctioned, but the various quests unrelated to official business, and all the mobs we randomly slay for drops, SP, or just because we want to are not explained!





Hah hah, hey, I'm FROM Gridania! It's my hometown! I would be doing leves there all the time if my crew wasn't so Ul'dah-attached.

Anyway, yours is the best answer yet. Now, as far as I can tell, in-game we don't know WHY poaching is an offense Gridania imposes a death penalty on, nor do we know the poachers' affiliations, and we don't even know that they don't sell raptor leather back to those leather workers anyway, but it's definitely a lot more reasonable then anything else the game gives us!

I fully concede I'm overthinking this, and, like so many quests in WoW and Rift and XI and PSU, it's just fun sometimes to ask the community about lore issues and see the theories behind it. Heck, the Star Wars community has filled in just about every given plothole in the new trilogy!
No we do know why, it says in the guildleves themselves that they are picking the forest clean and selling the hides to merchants in the far east (where Garlemond is located).