Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161030153351/@comment-24994749-20161031023720

KNN005 wrote: I mean are Ren and Nora gonna keep that to themselves. Are they gonna let anyone know that Jaune's hometown got wiped out? What if some people were only raped by the bandits and they hid from the Grimm? There could be survivors. They should have checked longer.

Ren took a while observing into the distance before he declared they had to leave because it was unsafe. And Nora tried to argue with him until she saw the mark on the soil.

It's possible Ren saw another similar marking somewhere away and, recognised the group that did it... maybe he knows they have a modus operandi of leaving no survivors.

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote:

Looking at the previous spoiler thread, there seemed to be a lot of talk about whether whether he is a Schnee or not, whether Whitley was his son or not, but honestly it is making me wonder if there is not some underlying family secret that puts this in a very different light. One thing I think back to is the fact that Snow White had a wicked stepmother. It is why I and others assumed her mother died, but maybe they flipped it a bit and gave her a wicked step-father, except she doesn't know it.

The name Jaques is derived from Jacob and it is said to mean "supplanter" as in someone who seizes a position that belongs to someone else. It is a reference to the Biblical Jacob who was the secondborn to his twin brother and took his older brother's birthright from him. So, what if Jaques is really her uncle with her real father dying when she was young and, either due to it being the product of an affair or just kept a secret from her, she believes Jaques is her father? This could explain the sour relationship between Jaques and their mother, along with her apparent boozing, as well as his comparitively better relationship with Whitley.

I like this theory.