Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20170522044827/@comment-34633327-20170709121037

ChishioKunrin wrote: You have a pretty good point about "low lifes" setting up in abandoned, ruined towns. After all, we saw evidence of that, with the sign pointing to Kuroyuri having "BANDITS" spraypainted on it in the finale.

Though, Nora absolutely did not grow up in Kuroyuri and may not be from Anima at all. One of the boys who was bullying her said "Where'd she come from? She's dressed all weird!" His question implies that she's not from Kuroyuri. The fact that her style of clothing is considered "weird" implies that she may not be from Anima. Anima's culture, architecture, and style of clothing have a lot of influences from eastern cultures of our world. Nora's clothing style was not eastern in the least. In all honesty, I thought the Bandits sign was suppossed to indicate Raven's group, I'll call them the Corvid Tribe for now seeing as both Qrow and Raven are from it, typically was around those areas. Its not just low lifes that might be hiding out though when you think about it. Mercenaries, Assassins like Marcus and Mercury, Unlicensed Huntsman, all could be taking advantage of the Kingdom's blind spots. In a sense, the abandoned towns can be compared to Vacuo. If you can survive there with the constant threat of Grimm and Bandits, then you get to stay there. Difference being Vacuo is more being accepted by the others, the villages is just establishing territory.

Yeah, I considered the Nora is a Foreigner angle, but opted to instead put presumably. Even if she is a foreigner, we have no idea how long she was in Kuroyuri before it fell, maybe only a day, maybe a week. Even then, she and Ren had to have travelled Anima for awhile together after they met and before going to Beacon, so it still stands to reason Oniyuri is obscure if she didn't hear about it during their travels.