Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20130815164657/@comment-24260323-20140110015602

BenRG wrote: FWIW, I don't think that Vytal has any standing armies. There may be something similar to the National Guard, trained and equipped specifically to handle large scale 'bug hunt' Grimm infestations but I think primarily, defence against Monsters is solely the responsibility of the Guild of Hunters. There is no indication at this point that there is any international tension. I suspect that having a very real set of monsters threatening to annihilate humanity, petty squabbles over borders, resources and what someone else's grandfather's grandfather did to their grandfather's grandfather are all reduced to their proper level of irrelevance. Wait, didn't Jaune mention that there was a "War" that his ancestor took part in? That kind of implies that even with the ever looming threat of Grimm, people will still fight each other (Maybe someone had a Dust shortage and wanted more, or someone wanted to expand their kingdom). It can't be a War against the Grimm because a war is defined as : "A conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air."