Talk:Vale (kingdom)/@comment-26065813-20170527133856/@comment-4010415-20170527135855

I'm pretty sure the outlines on the continents were not intended to represent the kingdoms' territories, actually. They were just there to highlight the general area that their territories are in. For example, Vale wouldn't try to settle territory in the southwest half of Sanus because that's where Vacuo is, and Vacuo might want that land.

I'm pretty certain the territories are much smaller than those highlights.

Let's look at Mistral, for example. WoR: Mistral highlighted the entire continent of Anima, but it looks to me like WoR: The Great War shows Mistral's kingdom as being that circular area with the gigantic lake in the middle. We know that, for most of volume 4, RNJR was outside of the Kingdom of Mistral, especially since the village leader in the first episode said that he and the other villagers liked life outside the kingdom better.