Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131022161224/@comment-15108745-20131024162952

Personally, I find it somewhat hard to believe that the war took place some 10 years ago. I think it has to be at least more than 50. I think of the Faunus Wars as something close to (at most) the World Wars or (at least) the wars in the late 19th century rather than something recent like the Gulf Wars or the War in Iraq. My reason for thinking like this is that the Faunus were able to win based on their ability to see in the dark. Seeing the technology in RWBY now, I feel like if the General in the Faunus War had tried to ambush the Faunus in their sleep, he would have at least brought some sort of nightvision equipment. I mean, if they have holographic screens and collapsible touch-screens that can measure Aura wirelessly then they should at least have nightvision equipment. Since the Faunus were able to beat him with just their nightvision, I would say that the technology of the army probably wasn't too advanced at the time. Probably, the blunderbuss axe of Port was considered a novelty at the time.

Now then, since the Faunus War took place quite some time ago and the reason the war happened was because people thought they were inhuman monsters, I think it's safe to say that after a truce was called, people were willing to at least try and consider the Faunus to not be monsters. After some time, people saw them as beings with a soul but not quite humans because of their features. Calling a Faunus a monster or evil person in the present day is (I think) comparable to calling a black person inhuman or a savage (much like in colonial times or sometime in the late 19th century). Nobody really does that anymore. It's archaic and sounds a little ridiculous when used in present day language. Sure, there are indeed racial problems that black and colored people face in America, especially recently with the World Trade Center attacks and the wars in the middle east. But the people who are racist see them as humans, at least. Just lesser humans.

Concerning the Grimm/Dust stuff, so basically as I understand it: Dust was created by the Genius just so that she could give something to the nobles that was shiny and colorful and convince them that they could control Grimm with it. And then later, humans found out that Dust had some special properties like being a source of energy or enhancing Aura?

Finally, concerning the SDC.........awww.......you're such a killjoy :(  And here I was, getting all excited and seeing if I could try and integrate everything we know so far about RWBY into this new back story. Oh well, I suppose this means that you're not even going to try and explain White Fang, Roman, or Crimson?