It depends where you are, I guess.
There have only been two adventures that I can recall which touches upon the topic since the 3.5 days, which are my own "The Dark Face of War" and Joe Cirillo's "Edge of the Knife".
In the first adventure, I wrote it under the assumption that the val'Virdan of Erduk still harboured a pathological hatred of the val'Emman in the same way that the modern world does of escaped Nazi's--and for exactly the same reason, in their mind--which is basically the same as the 'traditional' view of Erduk from established stories. However, I did make the character Hasdrubal val'Virdan who had a more. . . progressive view which wasn't shared by his underlings. My view is that in the modern day your average Erdukeen harbours a view that all evil in the world come from the Emman (and, to a lesser extent, the Assante' probably), and all children are indoctrinated to this fact. As people travel and are more worldly, this ingrained hatred can be filed away, but the majority still believes the indoctrination that had been pushed upon them as children, which means the hatred continues.
In "Edge of the Knife," we hear that the val'Emman have claimed Enpebyn as their own personal domain (like the val'Ishi) and have spent the decades harassing or otherwise ridding the city of all the val'Virdan. This shows a level of aggression and hatred (or at least animosity) which matches the val'Virdan descendents and adherant's of the Sword of the Heaven. In fact, the view I see seems almost childlike in its level of vengeance, but such a view is entirely based on OOC views when IC they themselves might have suffered greatly warrenting their hatreds.
The only other two places this animosity would be relevant would be in Canceri and Nova Cormata in Coryan. For these places, we really do not have too much information, but personally I cannot see any evidence to support that there is more hatred between the families than any other Val clan. In Canceri, there is a chance that the val'Emman's would be welcomed by the official government to spite the Swords of Nier who had previously occupied their country. Additionally, many former 'loyal' Nierite val'Virdan's when the Swords came in were persecuted when it was found that they were in fact Emman's, which may have led to a number joining the forces which fought against the Sword's occupation. Even if the val'Virdan 'elite' would oppose these upstarts from gaining power, they could have earned a lot of brownie points with the Mehan and the Mordanes for their opposition.
In Nova Cormata, I can see there being some tension (especially if the Coryani Emmans are actively persecuting the Virdans to the north), but the tension may be between rival houses seeking power among a new province filled with refugees. In this situation, the same may have been the same if the Holryn's or the Sheem were also involved in the establishment with the Nierite families. However, it remains to be seen as new material is released.
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