I doubt the Gruul care about the Gateless in any particular way.
They're so disenfranchised and removed from the typical guilded experience, if anything, they would probably welcome the civil unrest that the Gateless would provide.
The Gateless in turn probably don't think too highly of the Gruul because the worst of them still perform raids on the city for funsies.
@Vol v Bolas
It's hard to articulate how ungodly strong Bolas is, even now after the mending.
He can kill people by thinking about them.
@Tezzeret, ruling
Tezzeret loves power, it is a cornerstone for everything that he is, but he doesn't seem to care for being a leader.
Because that involves interacting with other people on a regular basis, and he doesn't think much of most people.
For example, he had other people run the various branches of the Consortium for him, so he would have that many fewer people he would have to deal with.
@Chandra, last whereabouts
At the end of the Awakenings comics, Chandra said she was going to go the Jace route and try to track down whoever set her up to get involved with the scroll in the first place. Haven't seen her since.
I mean, if I were trying to read too much into the tattoo, the angle I would go for is that Ral doesn't respect Niv, and so to tattoo another dragon onto his person is like a giant fourty foot tall neon middle finger built on the building opposite Nivix.
I simply use the word Plane (capital p) when talking about a Plane as in Ravnica, Mirrodin, Kamigawa, and plane when talking about any other definition.
There's a saying that I champion over on the Wizards forums
"Guilds exist in layers"
The idea being that entirely too many people are prone to lump all the members of any given guild into a singular mindset.
Which is objectively not true.
Ilona was not acting on behalf of the Orzhov when she had Bilagru murderkill the heck of of Symond, she was acting on her own as his loan-giver-person.
A different Orzhov moneylender might have different ways of recouping their losses.
Take the profits from Symond's next couple of plays, a lifetime of servitude, cutting off an arm, etc.
Ilona can't be held responsible for any actions other than her own, and just because the Orzhov have a public perception of being ruthless mofos doesn't make it universally so.
If memory serves, when the dragons were wiped out on his home plane, it was largely by the warlords to see if they could.
That's what Sarkhan found fault with, it was so pointless. They weren't doing it for territory or because the dragons were a threat; they were having a "who's the biggest jerkface" contest.
I doubt Sarkhan would be bothered by Niv butchering his kind, dragons kill dragons all the dang time on Jund.
I suppose that alone shows how much of a runaway success Zendikar was.
They're so disenfranchised and removed from the typical guilded experience, if anything, they would probably welcome the civil unrest that the Gateless would provide.
The Gateless in turn probably don't think too highly of the Gruul because the worst of them still perform raids on the city for funsies.
It's hard to articulate how ungodly strong Bolas is, even now after the mending.
He can kill people by thinking about them.
@Tezzeret, ruling
Tezzeret loves power, it is a cornerstone for everything that he is, but he doesn't seem to care for being a leader.
Because that involves interacting with other people on a regular basis, and he doesn't think much of most people.
For example, he had other people run the various branches of the Consortium for him, so he would have that many fewer people he would have to deal with.
@Chandra, last whereabouts
At the end of the Awakenings comics, Chandra said she was going to go the Jace route and try to track down whoever set her up to get involved with the scroll in the first place. Haven't seen her since.
Edit: No she didn't, that was Jace.
"Guilds exist in layers"
The idea being that entirely too many people are prone to lump all the members of any given guild into a singular mindset.
Which is objectively not true.
Ilona was not acting on behalf of the Orzhov when she had Bilagru murderkill the heck of of Symond, she was acting on her own as his loan-giver-person.
A different Orzhov moneylender might have different ways of recouping their losses.
Take the profits from Symond's next couple of plays, a lifetime of servitude, cutting off an arm, etc.
Ilona can't be held responsible for any actions other than her own, and just because the Orzhov have a public perception of being ruthless mofos doesn't make it universally so.
That's what Sarkhan found fault with, it was so pointless. They weren't doing it for territory or because the dragons were a threat; they were having a "who's the biggest jerkface" contest.
I doubt Sarkhan would be bothered by Niv butchering his kind, dragons kill dragons all the dang time on Jund.
Which are you, Keeper?