Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-25875828-20150205065602/@comment-130.76.32.99-20150210213224

The Royals wanted Nick as an asset/minion of the family. Since Nick has chosen to ally with Renagade Royal Renard (from here on refered to as RRR), and is otherwise anti-royal like his mother and aunt before him, they'll remain an enemy. The Resistance is iffy. They still see RRR and friends as potential allies, but wanted to use Diana as a pawn in their war against the Royals. That will be a point of contention but if RRR remains useful in their war, they won't go after them right away. The Reapers have been pretty much a non-entity after both RRR and Nick made their opinions of them very obvious via cut-off ear and cut off heads.

The Council is going to be a wild card depending on how they choose to treat Nick. They have always been cautious of him, but his efforts at maintaining order in Portland as well as his mostly positive handling of their endevors in Portland has been earning him their grudging respect. This failed power play with the assassin killing in Nick's territory and the bounty on Nick's head is going to force them to either start treating him more respect as a regional power or force them to go to war with him. The more Nick's good rep builds with the locals and the more his influence in the bigger picture with the Royals and Resistance grows, the harder it'll be for the Council to treat him as a minor nusiance.

Seems foolish for the Council to pick a fight when Nick's influence is so localized and is generally non-hostile. On the flip side, Nick would be a better friend than enemy as far as the council's goals go. Their law seems to be about prosecuting those that use their wessen nature to prey on the rest of society, which falls right in line with Nick's ethics as a cop. It's that he won't just accept the council's usual cloak and dagger approach that rubs them the wrong way.

-DavicusPrime