Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25250830-20141003012248/@comment-32598036-20141006215649

BenRG wrote: They're part of the Grimm magnet. By making them powerful and thus creating fear, anger, hate, envy and paranoia in Vale, huge numbers of Grimm will either spawn or gather near the city, waiting for their chance.

Then the Black Queen virus kills the city's perimeter defences. White Fang storm in and it doesn't matter who wins. What matters is that the majority of the city's potential defenders on both sides will be killed or at least seriously weakned, thus leaving the civilian population of Vale, human and faunus alike to be slaughtered by the unending tide of Grimm that come storming in through the disabled defences.

What does Cinder get out of this? One of two things:

1) It begins the destruction of the organised opposition to the second rise of the Anti-Individualists and leaves the small, desperate bands of survivors easy meat to be enslaved (assuming she's working for the Anti-Individualists);

2) It begins the extermination of the foul plague of human and faunus from the holy face of Remnant, at the end of which, she genuinely believes the planet's meta-mind will ascend her into pure, disembodied aura energy to join the planetary godhead (assuming she's a crazy cultist).

If it is the second option, I genuinely expect Cinder to deliver at least once to Ruby a "the only hope to survive is to renounce humanity and ascend!" speech. Another good point, but that leads to the biggest question of them all: why does Cinder want Vale (and possibly the other Kingdoms) wiped off the face of the Earth- I mean, Remnant?