Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-28288412-20161017170813/@comment-24994749-20161019130511

MiniDaggers wrote:

"Like most succesful kingdoms" (at least one kingdom didn't need good environment to succeed?)

Honestly, if Vacuo is really mostly dessert, then it's probably quite a shit territory, without much natural guards. Could explain the characterisation of Vacuoians as survivors.

Or it could be Atlas. Then it could explain the fall of Mantle, and why the Atlas is so heavily militarised.

HazelQuill7445 wrote: I am wondering about the colors of the little houses, and how some of them cross lines into other Kingdoms. That's doesn't seem to be an accident.

Maybe there is an Argentina-Chile or Argentina-Uruguay situation with the borders.

Argentina and Chile have had clashes over the mountain border, with Chilean cities crossing onto the Argentinian side or too close to comfort.

The river border with Uruguay sometimes can cause trouble too, with boats not staying on their side.

Maybe kingdoms claim borders they can't precisely enforce?

Like, Vale there is claiming more than half of the continent, despite the population being pretty much restricted to an area pretty away from the southern border with Vacuo.

Given what Qrow says about the secondary cities down the coast and what happened to Mountain Glenn, I would say it's safe to assume the most southern green houses are nomad or at least officially out of kingdom settlements.

Maybe said types of settlements tend to claim allegiance to a kingdom (for protection, to get a CCT relay tower assigned, etc) and that's how kingdoms claim borders.

So those orange houses overlapping on Vale territory could be Vacuo aligned settlements claiming land over territory previously occupied by Vale aligned settlements (or Vale aligned settlements that changed alignment to Vacuo).

Which makes me wonder even more about those yellow houses at Mistral. Because they are not the same shade as the Vacuo ones, and neither they are the same shade and the Menagerie ones.