Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-94.195.53.219-20160728132025/@comment-3253764-20161017042946

I'm just going to totally guess what the Great War was all about. If Volume 4 comes out and I turn out to be right, I am psichic.

My theory is that the Kingdom of Mantle started the Great War, sewing greed and mistrust across the other three Kingdoms. At the time the Monarchs of these kingdoms were the overall rulers, and what they say goes - thus they chose to go to war without the consent of the people, thus beginning the long and bloody struggle between the four nations in a free-for-all war, with Mistral, Mantle, Vacuo and Vale all gunning against one another, all while the people of these kingdoms suffered due to the inability of the Rulers to sit down and talk, allowing their greed and hate to do the talking.

However, the fighting soon turned inward as Huntsmen and Huntresses rose to power, fighting against the establishment to protect their induviduality and against oppression of the elite. Starting a revolution to change the world, and end the war. Huntsmen helped bring down the powerful, and the Kingdoms settled their grievances - however Mantle refused to back down, resulting in the other three Kingdoms and the Huntsmen/Huntresses to unite and take them down, resulting in Mantle becoming defunct and replaced by Atlas.

Since then, political power has been shifted from bloodlined royalty to an elected council, however like the UK the royalty still exist - but only for cultural reasons, most notably as a reminder that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutly. These Kings/Queens/Princes/Princesses exist solely as figureheads for the people, who promise to ensure that the mistakes made during the Great War will never happen again.