Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181208003742/@comment-4141313-20181213033710

Sinjoh wrote: BlizzardDragon wrote: 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:

Yet Jaune has the Knight in Shining 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? You're kinda pegging Asia as only being the Far East/Southeast Asia. You're forgetting countries like Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Cyprus, and Kazakhstan despite being in or mostly in Asia do have some cultural ties to Europe due to their close proximity to the continent. Except the only Asian countries Mistral seems to evoke are the far east/south asia.
 * Ren obviously being a reference to Mulan and even wearing Chinese esque clothes.
 * SSSN are all based/designed after K-Pop Bands, 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.


 * Ren being based off of Mulan means that he, and his parents, have chinese designs.


 * Team SSSN being based off of K-Pop Bands mean they're korean in design.


 * Arslan and Bolin have monk aesthetics, and their basis is specifically said to be Eastern Martial Artists

* The ruler of Mistral during the Great War having a similar design to the chinese emperors.

* Even the World of Remnant on Mistral seems to paint them as Fantasy Eastern Asia