Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24177652-20140316072117/@comment-24117358-20140611204654

Mercen has a good point about Roman not having any of his own henchmen. I actually overlooked the fact that he seems to be hiring a lot of people to do his bidding instead of having any underlings do it for him. I am almost certain that there is someone above Junior, as his name suggests that he shares a name with his father, who is very likely also his boss. Also, Junior doesnt seem like a very big time leader, maybe not even second in command. Any good kingpin (sorry for the wordplay) I know of would rather stay in seclusion and leave the smaller things (Like renting out henchmen) to his underlings who could take the fall.

Also, since Mercen brought up the Sith *clears throat, straightens tie* the whole Sith order follows one rule. There can only be two Sith in existence at any given time. The Master takes an Apprentice, who in turn will become a Master by killing his or her Master, and will take another Apprentice. If we apply this to the RWBYverse, the first leader of the White Fang could be the Master, Adam being the Apprentice, the Master steps down (instead of being killed, although it could be a possibility), and Adam becomes the Master, taking Blake as his Apprentice, although that doesnt work out too well.

Ben also has a good point. The King is basically useless when it comes to gameplay. Unless a very clear opportunity without repercussions presents itself, the King will almost never attack directly. The King in chess is really more of a liability than an asset, because the whole point of the game is to protect the King, who is quite literally the second weakest piece on the board (move wise) excluding the pawns.

Now that I think about it, what applies to this situation better is a game of 3 person chess (from Big Bang Theory). The rules can be found Here. If you've read the rules, you can see it's quite a bit more complicated than normal chess (also Sheldon's version is more exaggerated than real 3 person chess). But I see it this way, there are three major factions. (1) Beacon Academy/Good Guys (2) Cinder/White Fang/Junior's Crew (3) The Grimm. Each side is fighting for something, but at this time we don't know what for. They could each be fighting for something completely different than the other two, but simply see the others as obstacles. Overall, the King is just as useless if not more so in this version of chess, although there are a slew of other pieces that can be employed in various ways.

If we try to think of this given real life examples, the King is really nothing more than an instructor, someone who gives orders to many people who do his bidding, but ultimately is just as weak as his underlings. With that logic, I would say that if the King does exist, we probably wont see him or know who he is for a while.