Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20130918074042

It's been posited that there were launchers we didn't see and/or a second round of students who were launched into the forest. This is supported by the fact there are 20 relics at the temple only one of which is claimed by each "team" of two people. That means altogether there would be 10 four-person teams. If it had been Ozpin's intention to whittle down the candidates, he would have provided less relics rather than more thus creating a situation in which teams would have had to battle each other for their relics. We have seen three teams so far. Two took white pieces while the last (or first) took black. It's possible among the other symbolism that this implies a foreshadowing of rivalry between teams who took white versus black pieces. We've seen teams take Knights, Rooks, and Bishops and, as pointed by one, so far they correlate to the teams who took them (white ponies aka unicorns or Pegasus fairytale creatures, white castles indicating defenders, and black bishops correlating with angel/birds indicating the avian motif of team CRDL; cardinal also being a religious station like bishops).

This all leaves speculation open to a broad spectrum of characters we have yet to consider. At least four more fairytale-inspired characters, four more warriors (possibly more genderbends), four more characters possibly inspired by religion... not to mention 8 Pawn/sacrifice/martyr characters, and 8 royal characters (to collect the Queens). 