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Here's my thoughts on what is Cinder's plan: I think that she's out to destroy all three factions in Remnant - the 'official' power represented by Ironwood, the semi-anarchist insurgency of The White Fang and those attempting to keep the balance between these extremists, Ozpin and his Huntsmen.

Why? She was a Huntress once and she believed in Ozpin. She, like her sister Summer Rose and their team-mate Glynda Goodwitch, were willing pieces in the chess game Ozpin was playing with Ironwood for the future of Remnant. Would it remain a free society, as Ozpin was trying to ensure, or would it become a repressive control society, as advocated by Ironwood? Cinder's team, Team SAGE, found just what lengths Ironwood was going to. Realising the danger, Ironwood betrayed the team and, in the battle, Summer and the fourth member of their team were killed.

Glynda believes Ozpin is a good man and will not abandon him or his dream, even though he refused to believe his old team-mate was responsible for the deaths of two of his students. Cinder was a very different proposition. Disillusioned and more than half-insane, she abandoned her old name of Autumn Rose and became Cinder Fall. Her objective is to destroy all the existing factions so that society would be rebuilt in a better form. She doesn't really care who does the rebuilding (although she hopes she is a part of it).

She has been manipulating Ironwood (who believes her to be his agent) and the anarchist elements exemplified by Roman and the reformed White Fang into a position where they would destroy each other. She also intends to ensure that the society that Ozpin sacrified so many to protect would be destroyed and she wants to be sure he sees that, before she ends his life.

Ruby is a wildcard. I doubt she knows who the girl with grey eyes might be. However, when Emerald brings her news of the girl's identity, she might find herself wanting to recruit a another Dark Huntress to displace Roman in Team CRME.