Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26206856-20160104073657/@comment-26872876-20160110014609

92.29.185.37 wrote: Yeah, considering everything's thats going down, I believe that even if Team RWBY uncovers and defeats Cinder... Here is a list of my speculations, although not all of them are well thought out.

-Ironwood gets killed by Grimm and Vale gets completely taken over by Grimm

-The whole world lays the blame on Beacon for the Grimm overunning Vale

-The Beacon students are forced to flee Vale to escape not only the Grimm but Atlesian forces seeking to avenge their loss as well as Bounty Hunters and whatever other factions they encounter.

-The Beacon Academy teams are split across different regions of Remnant, as we'll see in Volume 4. So RWBY, JNPR, SSSN, everyone are each alone in another part of the world.

-There may be internal tensions between the teams as while some seek to just survive on the run, others want to protect the world from the Grimm and clear their names and others will actively seek revenge against the other kingdoms for spurnning them.

-One villain, knowing how human hatred feeds the Grimm, feels the only way to save the world is to "cleanse" it of all human and faunus life (Not sure, how it could tie in with Cinder's higher-up).

If we assume Ironwood is killed in this conflict, I don't see Atlas having such a reaction. The destruction of the city likely means that the Beacon is gone and the CCTS is probably destroyed. At that point, Atlas would have lost communications. Thus, I would assume they would likely pull away from the conflict and return to Atlas. I can't see all of the blame being placed on Beacon/Ozpin. I mean, Atlas brought a General and an Armada. Plus, you have Huntsmen/Huntswomen from around the world also present.

I do think we could see team splitting when it comes to just who is where and when as events unfold. Then you have people like Winter who would maybe want to take Weiss when she goes back to Atlas.

The other thing to remember is that Vale is a city as well as a Kingdom. Thus, it is hard to say how much the fall of the capitol will affect the Kingdom as a whole. However, from what I can tell, it seems as though the fall of the city almost feels tantemount to the Kingdom. That's actually one thing I wish we got more spotlight on. We know Vale is a Kingdom, but it feels like one giant metropolis with surrounding villages. Especially with Mountain Glenn being seemingly connected to Vale.