Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170206193307/@comment-25936766-20170213222546

KNN005 wrote: There's a big deal issue right there:

How badly will Ironwood lose it? Let's see...he already has big trust issues and paranoia. He has info that something is going to happen in Mistral, and doesn't trust Leo to fix it. And his response to that is to lock down his own people.

....And when/if Leo's traitorousness comes to light, even if he had a "I had no choice" reason for doing so, Ironwood will only see "See, you people?! I was right all along!!!", which may well just lead to 2 things happening as far as I can see at this moment:

1) He goes to war with Vacuo, if not every Kingdom (sans maybe Vale since Beacon is broken). Because if he can't trust Mistral's headmaster, he obviously can't trust the others, and for all he knows they could also be working for Salem, and thus better safe than sorry.

2) He isolates Atlas even more. Result: The other kingdoms suffer due to the lack of support from Atlas. His people rebel even more due to his dictatorship, misery and hate grows in Atlas, and then there's so much negativity Atlas gets overwhelmed by Grimm, being incapable of enduring them for long due to lack of support from the other Kingdoms, their helping hand rejected entirely.