Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-40.133.161.229-20171219025928

So we all know that the timeline of RWBY is deliberately non descriptive to avoid plot holes (lame excuse). Anyways I think we can use the seasons to establish a rough timeline. It has also been confirmed somewhere that the moon does go through phases which is why it looks different at different times so if somebody cares enough they can rewatch the series and try to pin down the dates of specific events.

Black trailer--> Fall

Red trailer--> Winter

V1+V2-->Spring and Summer

This is a good time as any to adress the school year deal... We have confirmation that V1=1st semester and V2= 2nd semester. That information alone doesn't tell us anything about where the semester's lie in the year but we know that V3 is in fall.

This also solves the "Sun plothole". Before the start of the show, Sun attended Haven which has summer vacation unlike Vale. Sun probably skipped the last few weeks of school and spent the last few days of Spring travelling to Vale so that he can arrive in late Spring for the end of V1.

V3-->Fall

At the end of V3 there is snow on the ground. This basically confirms that V3 takes place in the fall.

V4+V5-->Spring and Summer

The Haven School year begins in Fall and we probably won't dip too deep into fall this volume because the WF attack on Haven happens just before Fall.

Now we need to talk about Menagerie. When the northern hemisphere is having spring and summer, the southern hemisphere has fall and winter. Menagerie is clearly in the southern hemisphere and Menagerie does not look very cold in V4+V5. The only way to remedy this plot hole is to move Menagerie north of the theoretical tropic of Capricorn.

This rough estimation gives us some good milemarkers. At the upcoming Battle of Haven, it will have been 1 year since Adam stabbed Blake at the Battle of Beacon and 2 years since Blake broke up with him.

This also means that had RWBY stayed at Beacon, they would be finishing their second year right about now. So when comparing power levels, I think it would be accurate to label RNJR as third year members. Weiss, Yang, and Blake should be way behind RNJR. They just wasted the equivalent time of 2 semesters at Beacon moping around and doing concerts. Had they gone to school instead, they would have gotten much better than they are now.

Overall, its a smart tactic by RT. Keep your main characters weak.  