User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V4E5 - Polystralia - Impressions/Recap/@comment-28288412-20161205152605/@comment-25936766-20161205163744

It was the best they could give them. Anima has barely any good-enough space for a nation that isn't covered by Mistral. Sanus is covered by Vale and Vacuo, and we don't quite know how things are at it's northen area (if Vale's territory doesn't cover it). And Altius is taken entirely.

They had 3 options: 1) Islands here and there, which would be very insulting. 2) The Dragon continent on the west, which is apparently uncolonized for a reason (and in a WoR, we saw that it had 2 villages there....which got wrecked), so it could be dangerous.

And 3) Menagerie. It may be "2/3s Desert". But it's the best available option.

Why didn't the kingdoms colonize it? Maybe the location; It's not placed somewhere that's favorable for trade. The geography could also be a factor.

....Or the rest of the kingdoms were more busy preserving themselves than trying to found new cities in remote locations, an attempt that may well fail like Mt. Glenn (which was closer to Vale than Mistral is to Menagerie, mind you).

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I have. But, also remember: We have the Faunus WoR, not just Blake's words or the WF's. And the Faunus WoR says "Yes, they were discriminated, even hunted".

Faunus hate Humans because Humans hate Faunus. Humans have even slaughtered Faunus for no real reason in the past, as shown in the WoR, hence there is hate towards humans. So yes, there's mutual hate and discrimination.

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I treat Qrow as unbiased when it comes to the opinion of Faunus. But I take his words of Menagerie "really" being a "slap in the face", with some salt, since he strikes me more as jaded than factual there.