Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26281589-20131112205848/@comment-226878-20141014045908

Well, we have no information about Ruby or Yang's grandparents. Jaune mentions his great-great grandfather but only mentions that he was in the War. Aside from Ozpin's students and associates and the current-gen schools in the outlying kingdoms, we have no evidence that Hunters themselves persisted in Ozpin's (or possibly more aptly, Ironwood's) generation. We have no evidence that Hunters existed before Ozpin. There may been great warriors. But that's like saying that Crusaders have always existed or that Paladins have always existed or Samurai or Ninja have always existed. But they didn't. Each emerged out of a given society's culture. Sure, the titles persisted into the present, but I'm sure the same would eventually be true for Huntsman and Huntresses.