Talk:Huntsmen/@comment-25110963-20160511232048/@comment-410526-20160521185408

@Mini: I do think the Atlas military trains their personnel well, but the thing is even career soldiers probably don't have a training regime anywhere near as long and serious as Huntsmen. Huntsmen literally live their entire lives being trained to fight. Ruby at 15 had already trained for some years at Signal, Pyrrha at 17 was champion of the Mistral Regional Tournament for 4 consecutive years; assuming that was held annually she must have started training well before 13 to be able to win. It's no surprise that Huntsmen are way more skilled than normal military, who (in the real world) must be a minimum of 17(?) to enlist.

I think if someone like Roman spent his entire life on the streets learning to fight to survive, he could learn a lot about Aura and so forth to be able to go up against trainee Huntsmen and be much better than career military. Things are different in Remnant because of things like Aura and Semblance.

@Hazel: Nothing concrete but it's all but confirmed from context that Roman worked for the underworld. Everything about his style just screams organized crime. Apart from all the implied backstory there, there's also the fact that Cinder specifically sought him out as a contact in Vale (as she mentions when talking to Adam). She wouldn't have picked him if he wasn't already exceptionally skilled or especially connected (she chose Merc because he killed Marcus, a skilled assassin, and Emerald because of her useful Semblance).