Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131022161224/@comment-15108745-20131023033845

Well, I'm not exactly the greatest literary critic but I thought the ideas sounded acceptable. It's true that they're not exactly new but I have read worse.

Anyways, I suppose one thing that could put a crack in this theory is the appearence of an actual animal. That's just going off of Pyrrha's comment that all living creatures including animals have Aura. Of course, she could have been referring to animals in a kind of historical sense.

So far, the only thing that could fit the bill are those Rapier Wasps. But it's looking more and more unlikely that there are actual animals in RWBY especially with the behavior of that alpha Ursa in the forest. Apparently Grimm, even though they lack souls and are "monsters," have a diet like any other creature. Well....okay......maybe raw sap isn't exactly a normal kind of food, but hey, apparently Nora can drink it and live.....

I had the idea in my head that Faunus formed after or during the Grimm Wars for a while but I never really figured out how the "mechanism" might have worked. I thought maybe that there was some kind of "Force of Grimm" kind of like the Black Ooze in Princess Mononoke that was let loose in the world. Or perhaps it was a natural force that just somehow grew in power beyond what is was supposed to be. Either way, it got to all the animals in Vytal (or is it Remnant now?) and in the process, it got to some of the humans too, somehow. I thought maybe when the humans started fighting it, some got "infected" and it caused changes in their bodies. But I guess the whole sucking-out-souls-and-then-releasing-it-into-the-world-all-at-once idea works too.