Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20161018164833/@comment-14138255-20161020005123

Mistral is most definitely the "Renaissance Europe/Imperial China" part of Remnant. Renaissance Europe could be from the fabulous fashion and high end artisanry floating above a seedy, very much modern underbelly (as opposed to Vale, which could be a Modern Japan, with Atlas as Modern America. Vacuo, I will take a guess, would be Colonial America/A dash of Middle East). The airships make me think Mistral might have been the inventors of the Airship (unless that's Atlas', in which case the "Imperial China" analogy will have its "Spheres of Influence" analogy).

I agree with Ben's claim that Pyrrha was probably a national hero, maybe a symbol of hope in a society that has largely given up on honesty. I wonder if Pyrrha ever knew about the harsh reality of Mistral's underclass, maybe she was a part of the upper class (she had an intricate bronze outfit and transforming weapon while Scarlet was a pirate and had two separate weapons). If she was in the upper class, the masses of Mistral (aside from those who came from Sanctum) might actually despise her as a rich milquetoast who got fame, fortune, and whatever she wanted in life (and sold out on crap cereal) before dying ingloriously after accidentally stirring the people into a panic that destroyed Beacon. My hopes are she isn't, and was like Harvey Dent in the Dark Knight (a White Knight in a rotten society that inspired people to change themselves through his example), "the hero Mistral needed, but didn't deserve."