1) Before the Garleans attacked the first time, and even the second time, there seemed to be a semblance of open trade between the nations. Of course, Ala Mhigo was constantly trying to push west-ward towards Gridania to expand their lands even before the Garleans struck which caused the other city states to fight back against Ala Mhigo...so they may have been exempt from trade, but I doubt it. In regards to the Garleans in specific, Ul'dah is known to have traded ceruleum with the empire and Limsa has harbored ships hailing from Garlean territory, confiscating weapons and such to reverse engineer them for their own purposes. The long and short of it is, yes there was at least some minor trading going on between all the nations prior the Garleans attacking.
2) There hasn't been an established academy revealed yet, but it seems the guilds have much higher levels of learning and teaching. The Thaumaturges guild actually has hundreds if not thousands of scriptures that were once required for new thaumaturges to read during their training. This practice was eventually abolished and now thaumaturges have a specific tome they study from. The arcanist guild, Mealvaan's Gate, serves as Limsa's customs house but it also seems to be place of learning and education, if not a building filled with archived information, magic likely being part of that.Â
Anyways, hope that helped. Someone may have more details than I can provide however.
2) There hasn't been an established academy revealed yet, but it seems the guilds have much higher levels of learning and teaching. The Thaumaturges guild actually has hundreds if not thousands of scriptures that were once required for new thaumaturges to read during their training. This practice was eventually abolished and now thaumaturges have a specific tome they study from. The arcanist guild, Mealvaan's Gate, serves as Limsa's customs house but it also seems to be place of learning and education, if not a building filled with archived information, magic likely being part of that.Â
Anyways, hope that helped. Someone may have more details than I can provide however.
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