Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161204170804/@comment-26018514-20161206023720

The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: It's far more than what most people have period, Faunus or human. As far as the possibility of it being a "Chieftan's mansion" I have my doubts. The fact she calls it "home" is part of the reason....

In Volume 1 she says their previous leader stepped down five years prior and, as I understand it, Blake left the White Fang roughly a year earlier. She had apparently not left Vale since she soon started at Beacon. You would be talking about maybe four years at most and a lot of it presumably spent elsewhere with the White Fang. It actually makes perfect sense that the former leader of the White Fang would have a large mansion, especially if he was the original founder. One would need a lot of resources to found such a group and those would be the kinds of resources that could pay for a very large house....

Not being as big as the Schnee manor does not make a lot of difference when you are living in shacks and huts. Just compare it to the Xialong home and it is obvious Blake's family is much better off than even more successful humans.

1.  If you ask a student living in dorms IRL what do you think they call "home"? It does not matter if they personally set foot in it, it's usually where their parents live that they refer to as such(unless they have an apartment and are self-sustaining).

2.  That is 5 years since her father stepped down, but what exactly did the WF do before their violent new leadership? Diplomacy and advocacy... where do you think her parents did that? It certainly wasn't in Menagerie, so they at best would have had a "summer home" there, not a residence, unless it predates the Faunus war and the Belladonna's were living there before said war, they likely did not possess this house long before he retired from the WF.

3. Except they are a head of state household... They need space to entertain guests, Tai doesn't, he only needs living space.

Blake likely rarely visited Menagerie while serving under Adam.