Talk:Bodyguard of Lies/@comment-25176701-20150118012301

The title is actually part of a famous quote by Winston Churchill: "In wartime, truth is so precious that she must often be attended by a bodyguard of lies." It's also a book written by Anthony Cave Brown that was named after the quote.

The quote basically means that in times of war people have to lie in order to guard the truth.

This may have to do with the Mountain Men guarding the truth (Cerberus Project and Harvest Chamber) with lies. In a way, the Reapers were used as "bodyguards" for the truth. The Reapers protected the truth of what really happened inside Mount Weather by guarding the mines and attacking/killing anyone who came into them. In a way, Reapers were also the "lies" that hid the truth. Before Clarke told Lexa about what happened inside Mount Weather, I'm assuming she, as well as the other Grounders, just assumed that whoever was abducted by Reapers were eaten. The Grounders most likely had no knowledge that their people were the Reapers, or that their people see being used for their blood. Maybe the Mountain Men knew that turning Grounders into Reapers would not only make for good "bodyguards" of the Harvest Chamber, but they might have also have thought that the Reapers could be used as an excuse (or lie) for why Grounders went into Mount Weather but never came out.