Ahh, thank you so much, Catapult! :D That helped clarfiy a lot; I really appreciate your answer!

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Sigurdh and Oona may not be wildlings, but they may be risking becoming ones in attempts to turn Garleans into wildlings. Dangerous stuff and definitely NOT socially acceptable.
This entire answer was really interesting to me; the fact that Gridania might be preparing to turn enemies into wildings secretly or anger the elementals on purpose turns the entire concept of the peace-loving Gridanians on its head. I actually hope they continue with that story should the empire make its presence and they start conflicting with Gridania in ARR; there's a lot of potential in it. (I mean if footage from the producer letter live showed that the imperials have already set up bases in Thanalan then there's most likely some kind of imperial presence somewhere in the Twelveswood and maybe we just haven't seen it yet?) I could see some kind of conflict within Stillglade Fane where a bunch of them want to use the elementals for war, but maybe the Seedseers and the Order of the Twin Adder don't want to and all kinds of crazy stuff could happen within the Gridanian hierarchies.

but obviously that's all speculation and my guess is they'll probably forget that subplot even existed. i guess we'll find out soon enough. :P

but thank you again! I really wish I could contribute as much to these forums as you and the regulars do, but I dunno if I could ever even contain the crazy amounts of lore that you guys can...if there's anything i can do to help you guys with my little knowledge, though, I'd love to help out, so I'll keep on watching the forum as more stuff comes up! ^^