Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20140726050227

The way Tukson reacted to the question about Third Crusade makes it seem like there was something significant about the term. So let us have a whole thread to speculate about it. One person suggested it was a code word, but I wonder if the comment from Emerald about "not keeping his promises" is relevant to the term. The Third Crusade was a war by Christian nations to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslims, so this may be a clue to the meaning of the term for them.

My own theory about the Faunus has long been that they were the original inhabitants of Remnant and the arrival of humans led to many of them being massacred and the rest forced from their native lands where humans now reside. If that is the case the term "Third Crusade" could be a reference to whatever the White Fang's plans are with Cinder. Perhaps Vale was built on the site of the capital of a pre-human Faunus civilization and the White Fang are looking to reclaim it for their people. Cinder is, of course, motivated by different desires, which could have something to do with the significance of the site itself. 