Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20170114144645/@comment-10390252-20170114214754

Arkantos95 wrote: ACWeapons wrote: But the King ended the monarchy with himself as the last King of Vale. So his descendants wouldn't have any real status in the new government. Did I say anything about governments? Whichever of Jaune's parents was the son or daughter of the Warrior King who is probably the most historically significant mortal in Remmnant's history would be a celebrity simply by virtue of their birth. Unless I'm misremembering v1e02, the sword was used by Jaune's great-grandfather, so it would have been his grandparent who was the last publicly-acknowledged prince or princess of Vale.

As I said above, a lot depends on the amount of effort the new Council went to in order to hide the royal family away. New identities are an obvious must; they may not even have initially been allowed to stay in Vale City. In any case, if this theory is true, enough was done that that, within a few generations, they'd faded away to an indistinct memory. Jaune, although he might possibly resemble the occasional statue or portrait (something considered odd but not significant in itself) is hardly an object of awe and reverence.

I could even see it being a case where the Arcs just simply don't talk about their family past in too much detail. They consider it in bad taste and a glance back at Remnant's darkest days. Vale has no king and, up until recent events, it has needed no king. In truth, the Arcs are content to allow sleeping monarchies to lie and not raise too much of a fuss about it.

Time may be about to force a re-evaluation of that decision.