Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4010415-20140802105040/@comment-14909251-20140803170004

Sorry, but this is a pretty common way for people to refer to north and south. Were you in New York City and had a friend visit from Orlando you would say they were coming up to visit and they would see they are heading up to visit. If you were visiting the friend from Orlando then you would say you were heading down to Orlando and the friend would say you were coming down to visit. That is basically a consequence of thinking about positions on the globe in terms of maps of the world. On a map Orlando is down from New York City, while New York City is up from Orlando.

That said, it is possible Atlas could be north of Vale without being on the northern continent. Given that the location of Vale is not in the same place as the point of light it could be that the points of light do not signify cities, but the kingdoms generally and that their area is larger than we know. We know they have "regional tournaments" so it could be the points of light signify original holdout positions that began the kingdoms or just the central position of a kingdom and that the cities mentioned have no inherent connection to the points of light.

If Ruby was playing Atlas then she could be the only one consistently and correctly situated on the map and Atlas is just positioned on a northern part of the continent. Thing is the argument that Haven and Sanctum are analogous to Signal and Beacon is pretty compelling and it would suggest Mistral belongs to the corresponding kingdom. Some seem to think Mistral Trade Route is an area Yang controlled, but it sounded like a card effect. Either way, we don't know it has any relevance to the kingdom Yang controlled as she could have taken the territory or, if it was a card, it could be a general effect card or one someone else played.

One thought is that Sanctum, Haven, and Mistral, all correspond to the kingdom of Vacuo. Given that Sun stowed away on a ship that was implied to be from Vacuo, it would be consistent with Neptune being from Haven. Given that Weiss only had three pieces left on the board, Yang could have simply taken over her territory in a long sustained effort to crush the newbie. Mistral's name could be a reference to it being a coastal region like one of the juts of green land near the desert part of Vytal.