Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181208003742/@comment-4141313-20181209025530

ChishioKunrin wrote: I'm still of the belief that Nora isn't Mistralian after those kids commented on her looking like a foreigner. She's probably either Atlesian or Valean and just happened to be visiting Anima when she was orphaned.

As for Jaune, one point against him and the Arc's being Mistralian is his armor and weapon. With the exception of Pyrrha who was designed after Achilles, a lot of the Mistralian characters have an eastern design to them:


 * Ren obviously being a reference to Mulan and even wearing Chinese esque clothes.
 * SSSN are all based designed like a K-Pop Band, and even the Vacuoan Sun is based on Son Wukong from the Journey to the West.
 * Arslan and Bolin of ABRN have monk aesthetics to them.

Yet Jaune being the has the Knight in Armor design aesthetic, giving him a European esque feel to him. Why would there be a European esque family there in the middle of Fantasy Asia.