Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-108.18.99.183-20130911010651

Knight (HORSE) pieces: similar to unicorns -- Team RWBY (color and FAIRYTAIL theme)

Rook (CASTLE) pieces: associated with knights, royal warriors -- Team JNPR (WARRIOR theme)

BISHOP pieces: associated with angels, winged guardians -- Team CRDL (BIRD theme)

Just speculating about the trivia in http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/CRDL and http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/JNPR. But if the teams' motifs association does turns out to be on purpose, along with the already probably intentional reference to Red vs Blue, Monty may be sneakier than we give him credit for... 