User blog comment:Bob the Wikipedian/The Verrat, the Reapers, and the Grimms/@comment-4945263-20120423071519

Is possible that the Reapers are a third party from the Verrat or the Seven Royal Houses, very much like the Grimms, only serving them when convenient.

Also, Renard seems to have an agenda of his own, as he pushed the Reaper out of his city and killed his cousin to delay some sort of mission, so the loyalty lines are very blurred at this moment.