Beacon Academy Initiation

The Beacon Academy Initiation is a process that all first-year student go through upon arrival at Beacon. Instructors grade the students for the duration of the initiation, without intervention of any form. In The First Step, Professor Ozpin mentions the possibility of death during the initiation, advising the students not to hesitate to destroy everything in their path to succeed.

It begins on the Beacon Cliffs, where students will be launched through the air into the Emerald Forest, using their own landing strategy to land safely. Upon landing in the forest, each student and the first person they make eye contact with become partners for the next four years at Beacon, and must work together from that point. Once the student have their partners, they must travel to the northern end of the forest to retrieve one of several ancient relics in an abandoned temple. Each pair selects one of those relics and returns to the top of the cliff while guarding the relic they chose, being graded according to their performance.

Through the initiation, the students are put into teams comprised of four students each, who are likely two pairs from the initiation that complement each other.

Known Participants

 * Ruby Rose
 * Weiss Schnee
 * Yang Xiao Long
 * Jaune Arc
 * Pyrrha Nikos
 * Nora Valkyrie
 * Lie Ren