Talk:James Ironwood/Affiliation/@comment-24628514-20140920055721/@comment-24891101-20140920061943

No. He's clearly been invited, and somehow managed to swing his enlarged retinue, suggesting Vale does not consider him a threat. He's not prepping for a military strike. What he is doing is multifold: He is supporting his students at the Festival, he is overseeing the field tests of an Atlesian military prototype, he is advertising new Atlesian hardware, with an eye to selling to both Vale's military and private security concerns, he is partially providing security for the event itself, he's consulting with a dear friend about a growing threat, providing a deterrent to that threat, and readying himself to act as an ace in the hole should deterrence fail.