Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31058171-20170115195711/@comment-28288412-20170115224840

1a. Colour scheme can be a giveaway. How many other swords used those specific colours for those specific parts? By style, I mean the grneral double-edged sword, rather than all swords, how many double-edged swords of that make had those colours? They're limiting factors.

1b. How many people used double-edged compared to single? How many used that specific shape? Swords can have a variety of different shapes and sizes without being current RWBY level different.

1c. Crocea Mors appears to be a packaged deal, if the sword is that old I'd wager the shield being the same age.

2. Camera techonology before and during the war sure. After the war where Mantle would share the tech due to the peace is a different case. Ozking would likely still be alive for a time and would certainly be photographed if the tech was there. So unless he no longer had the sword, which the only immediate reason I can imagine is because it was a relic and was thus relocated and hidden away, I see no reason why a picture of it didn't exist.

3a. Barely anyone knows or cares about the SEWs anymore. The fucking King who ended the single biggest conflict in recent, if not all of, history is a completely different case entirely.

3b. Who's to say he could trust her not to lie considering her father's reputation?

... The latter?

3c. Once again, she may be more biased to her father rather than grandfather, at least until he was told otherwise, in which situation he wasn't focused on her history but rather her and her motivations like the rest of the girls.