Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-70.72.38.180-20150328175811/@comment-14909251-20150403230236

50.187.186.150 wrote: I've been thinking the four kingdoms are more like city states than full sized countries. The map we saw in Romans headquarters showed an area that looked like the area north of where the light beam for Vale is. I was thinking each kingdom was basically one large city surrounded by agricultural areas and maybe some outlying towns and villages. The fact that the grimm had to enter Vale through a blocked off railroad tunnel suggests the main cities are fortified as well. Which would make sense if the wild areas were infested with dangerous monsters. That being said, the train line from the black trailer must go to and from somewhere, maybe Vale and Vacuo. They're the only two cities to share a continent. As far as social issues go, I think human - faunus relations are better in Vacuo than in Vale. Sun's disdain for the White Fang suggests faunus in Vacuo have less issues with humans. Maybe the WF are a problem unique to Vale. Pyyrha seemed as contemptuous of Cardins blatant rascism as Blake was, so maybe there is more equality in Mistral as well. Atlas I have no idea. I don't remember if the exchange students from Atlas had any obvious Faunus among them. I haven't seen Gen. Ironwood interact with either Blake or Velvet yet, so who knows? I'm assuming as commander of the Atlesian military and head of their huntsmen academy his attitudes would reflect his governments. You don't make general by having unpopular opinions.

The train in the Black Trailer was going through Forever Fall forest, which is north of the city. It would not make any sense for the train to pass through there on the way between Vale and Vacuo.