Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27684451-20161121042030/@comment-4010415-20161212150220

Pyrrha disappeared like that because Cinder burned her to ashes.

I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm not the only person here who points out problems in other people's theories. It's kind of what the usual users do around here. We point out the problems in each other's theories. We pretty much analyze each other's theories to see which theories are more likely to be canon than others.

And I have come up with my own theories before, though to be honest, I haven't really been doing it as often as I used to lately.

I've theorized before that what specific subject Qrow might have taught at Signal was weaponry. Monty had said that we'll meet a weapons teacher in RWBY, and Ruby said Qrow is a teacher at Signal. I thought it'd be interesting if one of the reasons Qrow taught her how to use a scythe is because he's a weapons teacher at Signal who helps the students forge their weapons and teaches them how to use and maintain their weapons. Though, I think it's been said that Taiyang is also a teacher at Signal, so he could be a weapons teacher, rather than Qrow. He's certainly available a lot more often.

I also came up with a couple of theories about the Maidens, but now that we know that Monty didn't come up with the Maidens until after they finished making volume 2, I think those theories are most likely wrong. It was basically "Maybe Dust forms from magical residue that seeps into the ground whenever a Maiden dies, and thousands of years worth of Maidens has built up enough Dust in the ground for people to mine" and "Maybe the four Maidens spread out across Remnant and helped protect settlements, and four those settlements turned into the kingdoms." The four kingdom WoR videos that we got this volume seem to disprove that second theory.

Ever since volume 2, I've been thinking that Qrow's emblem is the one that appeared behind him during Yang's story in Burning the Candle, while Raven's emblem is the one that Yang drew on the board. The two emblems form a pair of winged eyes. We've found that Qrow's emblem definitely is the one that was behind him in the story, since that symbol is also on his flask and faces the same direction as the one from the story when his flask is upright.

I used to think that Qrow was using crows to see things that were going on elsewhere, but now we know that he literally just turns into a crow.

After volume 2 ended, I listened to Sacrifice over and over and theorized that maybe the song is from Cinder's point of view, she used to be a Huntress, she's fighting against (what she believes to be) corrupt governments in the kingdoms, and she wants to tear down the kingdoms to start anew with better governments. That, of course, was before we knew that Cinder isn't the big bad.

I think the orange Dust that Cinder was using in volumes 1 and 2 is lava Dust, though SYUTK thinks it's fire level 2 Dust.

Etc and so forth.