Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20140726050227/@comment-226878-20141007204332

Ocomfv wrote: The Devil's Advocate WP wrote:

My own theory about the Faunus has long been that they were the original inhabitants of Remnant and the arrival of humans led to many of them being massacred and the rest forced from their native lands where humans now reside. That is a thought that's been banging against the inside of my skull trying to get out since I rewatched volume 1 and paid attention to all the the lyrics. I also think the arrival of humans has something to do with the shattered moon, and the origin of dust. Precisely my guess. I'm actually writing a story wherein humanity's origins are exactly like this (of course the moon isn't shattered and the natives aren't animals) which was partially inspired by the Lunarians from Final Fantasy IV. So I have a bias toward this plotline.

I think war preceded the Grimm. I think people preceded the Grimm. They may have warred on the moon having (once upon a time) technology powerful enough to migrate to Remnant after having decimated their former home. It's been argued that the Grimm battles likely took place before The War. But we're not given a clear enough timeline to decide that.

We know The War took place (or at least ended) 80 years ago. We have no proof that humanity has been here longer. We don't even know the vastness of each individual kingdom yet. People can get a lot done if there are enough of them and of course there would be if a preexisting population moved from one planet to another. It does admittedly sound farfetched and, maybe, The War took place after the migration.

Still we are given a vague timeline to the correlation between the existence of man and Grimm. The Grimm appeared after man. We haven't been given this correlation when it comes to the Faunus.