Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-14909251-20141216213722

MetallicArcher wrote: I do wonder what was first: The great war 80 years ago or the Faunus War?

My personal interpretation for the faunus war is that it was, like the colonization of America, an expansion. The kingdoms found themselves in want (need?) of more land and went for the ones belonging to the faunus (that would have had more or less established civilizations, think like the Inca or the Azteca or like the Ancient Greek city states) to save up the job of having to clean up territory from Grimm presence themselves. Menagerie sounds like colonisers in the USA when they forced the natives into reservations, just that humans in Remnant kicked the faunus out to another continent entirely. I believe the war is much more recent. That makes more sense in the context of what Oobleck said to the students and it makes more sense in the context of what Blake has said about the White Fang. My opinion on the nature of the war is that Menagerie was a long-standing issue that for some reason boiled over until there was a war. One modern-day comparison would be the Palestinian Intifadas, which would make the White Fang like Hamas.