Quote Originally Posted by thegreatonemal View Post
So how I described. The Gridanians are offended by the Ala Mhgians seemingly rejecting their culture when they are trying to share there as well. Those tensions are the usual xenophobic tensions that Gridanians have for anybody not forest born. Nothing to do with the war which was a long time ago. The only quest that has to do with that war are the bard quest because one person has a personal grudge.
It's far more complicated than that though - there is still lingering resentment and contempt by Gridania towards Ala Mhigo due to the Autumn War that occured a century before (basically Ala Mhigo attacked Gridania, resulting in the rest of Eorzea allying with Gridania to drive Ala Mhigo's forces back over the Velodyna), and even in the present day, there is still the air of "you attacked us back then, you got what you deserved you warmongers".

Of course the present day generation were not alive when that happened and only heard about the war through second information, but the padjal who are ageless would - hell, it was stated back in 1.0 that the bloodshed the Ala Mhigans caused back then still has a lingering effect on the forest to this day, and unfortunately the elementals being completely obtuse don't differentiate between "the ones who caused death and destruction in the forest 100 years ago" to "innocents fleeing war", it's all the same to them.