Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20170114144645/@comment-4010415-20170115142415

Actually...

ChishioKunrin wrote: I keep forgetting to mention!!!

Qrow said no one knows who shot first in the riot that led to the first battle of the Great War.

How much do you wanna bet that whoever turned that riot into a battle was an agent of Salem?

It's kind of like how, in FMA (well, the manga and the Brotherhood anime, anyway), the Ishvalan Civil War was started by an Amestrian soldier shooting an Ishvalan child, and it's later revealed why that happened. It's more likely that, if anyone intentionally caused the Great War, it was Salem, with the intent to weaken mankind enough to wipe them out. It's like she said in her speech in End of the Beginning: When working together, mankind are a noticeable threat, but if you divide them, then all of their power will wash away. Notice Qrow said that, during the Great War, the Grimm attacks increased worldwide.