Spoiler: WoR Huntsmen
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So Atlas is the academy, and the kingdom is defunct? This means that the academy took over the kingdom, and now functions both as an academy and as a kingdom? That's interesting, and explains a few things that were only tangentially referred to before*, on top of explaining the general issues with trust on Ironwood (He's both the head of state and the academy headmaster, so there's room for a conflict of interest). In a darker setting, it would also explain why the populace feer having Atlas' flying troop transports on their skies. They're nominally for protection, but what if they're an invasion force instead?

* I mean, for example, the comments by Weiss when she meets Winter. She's cut short, but when she starts explaining how in Beacon they have completely separate <cuts off here>, she could be referring to that.