Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20150427084942/@comment-26018514-20150512230249

VedranTheII wrote: But didn’t the council as a whole side with Ironwood? And doesn’t the council represent the “voice” of all the kingdoms, including Vale and Atlas. Penny going to vale implies Atlas owes Vale, but how can it owe it something when, for all intent and purpose, they all agreed to trust Ironwood. That’s like if two people band up to hunt an animal, one of them get’s injured by the animal and demands the other hunter pay his bills…granted with a good enough lawyer you could probably pull this off, but realistically speaking the injured hunter, in this case Vale, would be in the wrong to demand compensation from Atlas. That was Vale's council, not international as far as we know. Penny going to Vale is part of a yearly international competition featuring the strongest student fighters, like Naruto's Chunin exams, basically she has been sent there to kick everyones ass and show that Atlas just created something superior to Hunters to protect all the people of Remnant from grimm, both strengthening their own position while possibly ending up removing huntsman from political power, which then leaves the other kingdoms ripe for conquest.