Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20170114144645/@comment-14909251-20170116063020

SpiritedDreaming wrote: It's not just that he's basing it off nothing (which he kinda is), but also that he's utterly refusing to acknowledge any sort of evidence which disproves his theory, despite Chish going quite in depth on why the sword is not Crocea Mors, which was the backbone of his theory. He isn't basing it off nothing. Rather, he is basing it off the fact it is yellow. Not to say that is a lot to go on, but the name Crocea Mors does at least lend itself to that consideration. The sword is colored differently than the swords used by Vacuo warriors and its color matches the crown.

Another thing to think about is that the World of Remnant models may not be 100% accurate to what they are depicting. For instance, in the Huntsmen episode, they showed two characters that seemed intended to look the same as the two statues in Beacon.

However, the yellow male figure is using a single-edged blade in World of Remnant unlike the double-edged blade shown in the statue. Incidentally, that statue shows a blade that looks almost identical to Crocea Mors.

It could be that World of Remnant just tends to use single-edged blades for sword models. Looking over screenshots of the World of Remnant episodes, the only time I notice them using single-edged blades was in the first season World of Remnant aired.

This could be about them using the same kind of blade for all the swords in World of Remnant episodes for simplicity's sake. Not always do they use the same hilt in the episodes, but that has only been times when the person using it is significant to the narrative, so it may not be intended as identifying the sword.

Obviously, this doesn't prove any theory right or wrong, but it does suggest that perhaps the look of the blade in World of Remnant is not as definitive a clue as some are suggesting. My stance on World of Remnant episodes is that they should not be taken with the same canonical significance as the actual episodes. Assuming everything stated or depicted in World of Remnant is exactly so in the RWBYverse is not warranted when the narrators are in character and the first narrator was basically lying to viewers a few times.