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Alhazad2003 wrote:

Considering the way Qrow described them in the Between the Kingdoms WOR, I'd say they really don't give the villagers a choice; they take what they want, cause enough chaos to lure in the Grimm, and then make their getaway, leaving the village to its fate. That seems to be their modus operandi, though if that's the case it's amazing that there's any villages left in Anima.

But I will agree that RT has not shown enough of them to give us a complete picture of who they are and what they do. And now, with the story moving to Atlas, they probably never will. Pity.

1. I never said they gave a choice.

2. They create Grimm luring emotions regardless of their other actions just by taking what they want, but just because Grimm may or may not attack the town after they leave, doesn't mean the tribe pillages/murdered those the Grimm kill.

3. As you yourself pointed out, maintaining a tribe of their size by purely wiping out every village they enter would be unsustainable, there aren't going to be thousands of places set up every year that have enough resources her tribe can go in, take everything, kill everyone, and get out before the Grimm arrive... they don't like sticking around to see Grimm.