I am instinctively wary of trying to create a story where little to no literature exists, but then that is a side-effect of my mundane work. I can't pick any holes in your theory, but I can't see much evidence for them either. It's one of those awkward situations where I'm simply content to wait for some small bombs of NPC/quest text before digging deeper.

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There are so many many aspects of the Twelve that I'm excited for in ARR... for instance, it has struck me several times that perhaps one of the reasons that Halone and Nophica hate each other has to do with the relationship between the Elezen of Ishgard and those of Gridania. According to the official page for the Elezen:
The forests, of which the Black Shroud is the tangled heart, have been home to the Wildwood Elezen for hundreds of years. Many of the Wildwood, however, have been drawn to the city-states they helped found, such as Ishgard and Gridania
Blame my fascination with Ishgard for this but when we also explore the legends from the Dragoon job quests we find that founding population of Ishgard were not only Elezen but they arrived there after "journeying to the land promised them by the Fury". Its as if there was a serious dispute in the Black Shroud that lead to one faction emigrating to Coerthas to develop Ishgard. Could this be because of the hate between those two goddesses?
Since we're still a week off being allowed to speak freely regarding beta content, I'll get back to this next weekend.