Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24032889-20180128082951/@comment-26018514-20180523225556

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote: 2. Again, you misunderstand, IRL we never fought eldritch horrors, we fought animals and humans, creatures that don't auto-spawn, that require food, water, shelter... Grimm need none of those things, when they start spawning within controlled human territory, that requires far more vigilance than even the worst IRL human conflict... even fire might be more easily prevented with preventative measures.

...Grimm don't auto-spawn from what we've seen. Near Salem's lair they were emerging from pools, but there is no reason to believe such occurs elsewhere. Even if we assume Vale would be strictly limited to just the forces they have presently and would not be able to mobilize more forces, there is no reason to believe they are incapable of fighting in a war between Kingdoms. Presumably, they wouldn't start it.

This outright states the northern colonies rely on Atlas technology to survive and that outer colonies were treated differently under Mistralian law, that dynamic is unlikely to have changed

Why is it "unlikely to have changed" exactly? Significant changes occurred in the wake of the Great War and it was not the last major war. It also indicated that Mistral lost a lot of territory. They may not even have most, if any, of the northern section. Over the course of decades they may have also greater centralized control over their territories. 1. Then how do young grimm appear elsewhere in greater numbers? if older grimm were the only ones on other continents until Salem sent them there, numbers outside Salem's domain would skew towards experience, so either they can "teleport" past natural obstructions, or they spawn elsewhere.

We already know they can spawn from the dragon, so that just proves my point.

2. I invite you to look at the WOR Maps... other than the one about the war itself, they should be current, and all of them show cities in Northern Mistral, by the fact RNJR didn't land there, we have further evidence that terrain there is likely difficult to traverse.