Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20170114144645/@comment-28345522-20170114220645

BenRG wrote: A lot depends on how secure the Vale Council feels and the degree to which the royal family still has supporters who'd like the monarchy restored. It's possible that the transition to democracy was hardly smooth and the last king or queen had to agree to vanish with their family and allow their family history to be a state secret. With the fact that Vale's king could've ruled the entire world but instead decided to lead a peace conference, my impression was that he wanted to rid of the centralised governments to more democratic ones instead. If that's the case, he would have willingly stepped down, not be forced to abdicate. So his descendants shouldn't need to be kept a state secret.

If Jaune has any relation to Ozking, it's possible and more likely, but not really, that his family may have been supporters of him and he entrusted them with the sword relic. Why'd they still be using it for other battles since then is anyone's guess.