Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
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.
I'm aware of the war but there is nothing in game that says that there are lingering tensions outside of the bard quests because one person has a personal grudge.
The Elementals don't not care about people in that way which is why the people living in the forest are so xenophobic, If anybody breaks the rules than the forest holds all people into account. Considering that they do let some refugees in during ARR and they reject some is proof of that. They just chose who can live there and who can't at random. The only group that they seem to have outright banned is the Ixal(not even all of them).