User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/RWBY 3 Livestream points/@comment-25209034-20160213095108

(Which.. I feel that, if Roman is really dead, that's bullshit, since other characters have survived things 500% worse. He had, like, 100% Aura, it swallowed his weapon with him, and the Griffon died immediately after. The fuck?)

You have to remember that Roman is way weaker than ironwood and can be beaten by every member of rwby except for Ruby. So it would take a lot less the kill him than ironwood or ozpin.