Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20170522044827/@comment-34633327-20170709084959

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Not sure how Mistral is the better choice when it is literally where the White Fang HQ are. Yes the HQ is in Mistral, yet that was never made clear until Beginning of the End, in which we were first given a hint from Adam's own flashback mouth. Its unknown if the general public knows of the WF having their homebase in Mistral. If their HQ's location was even vaguely known, it would make it harder for them to maintain it lest they risk losing it to the Kingdom's forces. Keep in mind they are terroists, so they can't just let their hideout be common knowledge. Cinder only managed to meet with Adam presumably because of Roman, as right before their meeting Mercury suggested talking to the rats, aka Roman, implying he knew of their plans to some degree. Also, note that all the White Fang Stories we've seen in the show happen in either non descript locations, or specifically Vale. We never really heard a single report of an attack in Mistral from the White Fang. And while Atlas is a possibility based on Weiss' account of people she knew "disappearing" (being executed), we don't know if this happened while they were in Atlas, or while they were on business in other kingdoms. Hell, we don't really know what the general public thinks there location is, but seeing as how the WOR for Menagerie pretty much says they started there, the public may think they are based there. The Point I'm making is that Mistral seems like the safer location in comparrison to Vale because of the fact that the HQ being in Mistral may not be common knowledge.