Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24994749-20140808215337

In Volume 1, Episode 1, the prologue narrator tells us about the original conflict against the Creatures of Grimm at the dawn of humanity that was "solved" by the humans discovering and mastering the use of Dust. This allowed for humanity to build and develop into the 4 kingdoms that now exist.

Later on, Glynda Goodwitch tells the students that the world is experiencing an "incredible time of peace" and that their duty as future hunters is "to uphold it" with Beacon giving them "the knowledge and the training to protect our world."

In Episode 2, Jaune tells Ruby about his great- great-grandfather having used Crocea Mors to fight in "The War".

In Episode 12 , Bartholomew Oobleck mentions the "Faunus Rights Revolution" and says it's commonly known as the "Faunus War".

In Episode 16, Blake tells Sun about her past and the origins of the White Fang as an organization to be "a symbol of peace and unity between Humans and the Faunus" in "the ashes of war" and how "despite being promised equality, the Faunus were subjected to discrimination and hate", clearly referring to the Faunus Rights Revolution.

Now, in Volume 2, Episode 3, Weiss mentions Atlas developed the Cross Continental Transmit System to allow the four kingdoms to communicate with one another as a gift after "The Great War". Now, this could be another name for the Faunus Rights Revolution, but, Oobleck's words of how "Humankind was quite, quite adamant about centralizing Faunus population in Menagerie." makes it sound like the 4 human kingdoms worked together against the faunus, which would have been hard without a proper communication system. That leaves the possibility of "The Great War" having been a war among the human kingdoms; if it was, depending on how it went, it would make sense for the Kingdom of Atlas (that has been shown to be a sort of military power) to show their leniency for peace with such a gift.

I think we should also have to take into account that it was mentioned in Volume 2, Episode 2 the existence of people who live outside of the kingdoms.

So, in which order how many wars there were and in which order did they go?

The "Grimm War" has to have been the 1st because it lead to the foundation of human civilization and mastering of the usage of Dust.

Then there is the question if "The War" Jaune's great-great-grandfather fought in, the "Great War" an the "Faunus Rights Revolution" are all the same or not. 