Talk:Semblance/@comment-26160399-20170909191742/@comment-4010415-20170911013228

They had brought up the Relics twice before Qrow explained their existence to RNJR, though. And yeah, they really could've shortened that exposition scene about the Relics because they didn't need to tell us the whole entire story about the brother gods.

Qrow could've just been like "Ey, you know that religion about the gods who were brothers? Oh, Nora doesn't? Well, in a nutshell, they were fighting, and the little brother made Grimm, and then they made up and created humans. Well, guys, here's the thing. The four gifts they gave to mankind - Creation, Destruction, Knowledge, and Choice - are actual objects, called Relics. The reason Salem is targeting the Huntsman Academies is because Ozpin's predecessor built the academies around hiding and defending them." Done.

Though, I think one reason they had Qrow explain is also because it's the origins of the Grimm.

Another reason might be that Miles seems proud of that little lore story. It was his very first major contribution to the planning of RWBY. He even mentioned how he came up with it in a pre-Volume 1 livestream, though he called it a "backstory thing", but he still described the way he came up with it the same way he described it in a post-Volume 4 interview. And, in the post-Volume 4 interview, he said that what we got was a truncated version. I can't help but wonder if he was using that word right because it means "cut short", like there's still more to the story.