Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-24198837-20140212023915

Very true. I forgot about all that real-world-controversy stuff... I assumed that people would just look past it, as RWBY is a work of fiction, and in it's own, unique universe (With a 15-year-old Gun-Sythe master. God(s) don't seem that out-of-question). I mean, it would all be for storytelling purposes, right?

I just can't see the Grimm, a force of world-wrecking pure evil, just "appearing" without something much greater at play. The opening narriation did say that the world was initially without Grimm, If I remember correctly.

That is, unless what Pyrrah said was not simplified, rather, is the 100%, as-specific-as-it-gets truth, "They are the darkness, and we are the light". I just always assumed that she dumbed it down for Jaune.