Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
- the situation in Doma with the big city sounds a lot like Ishgard too. I mean how often will they play the "dont want strangers in their city" card?
My guess: Its related to Japan history

Sakoku (鎖国?, "closed country" but commonly translated as "period of national isolation") was the foreign relations policy of Japan under which severe restrictions were placed on the entry of foreigners to Japan and Japanese people were forbidden to leave the country without special permission, on penalty of death if they returned. The policy was enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate under Tokugawa Iemitsu through a number of edicts and policies from 1633–39 and largely remained officially in effect until 1866, although the arrival of the American Black Ships of Commodore Matthew Perry, which started the opening of Japan to Western trade, eroded its enforcement severely.