Gridania rubs me the wrong way too, because they are fairly racist against Duskwights who are just as native to the Shroud as any of the rest of them. They seem pretty xenophobic and afraid of the forest, which is *explained* well in sources in 1.0 and such, but you never really get the sense ingame currently that it's justified and they come across as just being paranoid bigots in 2.0.