User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Antagonist, Cinder Fall/@comment-12227301-20131219212159/@comment-24218038-20131222142830

I don't believe there is relics myself at least not for now. Same reasons I don't believe we'll see an explosion in the competition. We've seen only volume 1. As of now we have no backstory for Ruby, Yang, Jaune, Pyrrha, Ren, Nora, Cardin, Glynda, Ozpin, Sun, Penny, Roman and Cinder. We barely have any stories about Weiss and an incomplete one with Blake.

We also barely know anything about: The war, Vale, Remnant, The 4 kingdoms, dust, aura, semblance. The only thing we have really exposition on is the faunus and the white fang. So expect AT LEAST volume 2 to be heavy exposition with hints of the overall Stories. The competition is placed in volume 2 so we can learn more about the students, it's a good way to give exposition. We'll probably learn more about aura, semblance and dust there to. By the end of volume 2, The story will be in a better position to have something big happen to our heroes, probably as a cliffhanger in the end.