Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-24994749-20140607183151

And thinking about how the rails for the trains industries use to carry around their porducts were built. I was thinking, during the openning narration, the female narrator reefers to humanity having to face against the grimm, it's not until the next episode faunus are even brought up (correct me if I'm forgetting something).

What if, going by the theory of the faunus being similar to the concept of indigenous people in our world, they used to live in the wild in their own kind of civili structure (maybe being semi-nomad). Then, humans appeared and started to force the world into their vision of civilization with cities and stuff. Faunus didn't have that much problem with grimms because whatever way they interacted with the wild did not make them anymore of a prey than animals. Humans instead systematycally deprived grimms of their territories as they were replaced by villages and later on cities and finally entire kingdoms.

They would have also, this way, be taking over territories originally habitated by the faunus. I came up with this because I was trying to imagine that, if grimms are really that dangerous, how did they build the rails for trains that go across the Eternal Fall forest?

And then I remembered "The Lone Ranger" movie? And that reminded me about when railways were built across the US and how the colonisers forced the natives to live in further smaller and smaller areas as the train companies expanded their routes.

And that eventually triggered the war between faunus and humans. Humans eventually decided they were no longer willing to deviate their progress to respect the rights to their territories of te faunus. So they decided to force them into a small area that humanity had no use for (Menagerie as mentioned by Oobleck) or kill them int he process.