Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-34633327-20180125034140/@comment-34633327-20180127034857

Matsananimal wrote: Here's my theories of what might happen in Volume 6:

1: Penny returns.

2: Cinder will be confirmed dead.

3: Emerald will become the new fall maiden in Cinder's stead.

4: Yang, and possibly also Weiss, will start becoming suspicious of Ozpin, possibly sowing the seeds of divide in team RWBY.

5: Ironwood becomes an Antagonist serving as a major Anti-Villain as a result of his deteriorating sanity.

6: If Ironwood dies in Volume 6, Jacque might become the new leader of Atlas and the situation w/ Atlas will become much worse.

7: Atlas will be on the path to a civil war with Mantle.

8: Adam becomes a part of Salem's inner circle and will murder Blake's family and possibly also Sun.

9: The tone of Volume 6 will feel closer to an Anime version of Game of Thrones compared to the other Volumes as a result of the deteriorating state of the World. Knowing the inevitable World War that awaits us in the future of RWBY I find this theory credible.

10: Some of the characters from the Beacon Arc, most notably from the Vytal Festival tournament in Vol. 3, will return. 1. Kind of a given considering the scene of the scientist when she died. If they ignore that, they are breaking the rule of Chekhov's gun.

2. Yes.

3. No. There is no way in hell Emerald was the last person Cinder was thinking of at that time. I'd much rather prefer a new character being the new Fall.

4. If anything, Ruby would be alone in the divide since Blake is new to all this, and could just as easily hold suspicions, especially if Yang lets her in to it.

5. His sanity isn't deteriorating, he's just being an idiot. He's doing the opposite of what Raven did. Raven ran off and tried to keep to herself, damn everyone else. Ironwood is trying to protect everyone but is instead hiding them behind a locked door.

6. Why would he die? The heroes wouldn't kill him, and I doubt he'd die to the villains so soon after his reappearence.

7. Mantle has very little compared to Atlas, and there is nothing to suggest a Civil War, but even if there was, Atlas would destroy them, because, ya know, Military.

8. GET OUT. You actually want the Belladonna family and Sun to die? GTFO.

9. Again, no. That's the kind of atmosphere they've been trying to avoid. It's the whole reason the heroes won in Volume 5, to avoid Darkness Induced Audience Apathy, which Game of Thrones is bathed in.

10. There's no reason for any of them to return except for maybe FNKI. They were the only Atlas Team outside of Ciel and Penny, and the others are all back at their home kingdoms. We didn't even see SSN or ABRN despite the fight being in Mistral, so we may not even see FNKI.