Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-25316824-20161012195119

Well I might as well make a list just so I can look back and compare...

1. RWBY takes a lot of inspiration from Harry Potter so I think we will see RNJR's mission follow the formula from the Deathly Hollows. A small team fighting for their lives and for answers in an increasingly dangerous world while addressing meaningful drama. I wouldn't be surprised if some themes or story elements were borrowed from the book.

2. Ruby will be more determined than ever to get to the bottom of this conspiracy and she will throw caution to the wind while Juane will take a more careful approach, wanting to avoid any unnecessary casualties like Pyrrha. (Someone else actually thought of this first but I am still putting it in here because it makes a lot of sense.)

3. Wiess's conflict with her father will likely take center stage and we will learn a lot more about their relationship. Wiess will win this conflict and her defeated father will secretly change his will so that his entire business, connections, and private security force will go to Wiess over Winter. Wiess may also convince him to change the way he does business.

4. In future Volumes Wiess's father will die or go missing and Wiess will inherite the Schnee dust company. Due to the immense political and military power of the Schnee dust company, Wiess will become a powerful faction leader only rival to that of....

5. Blake. She is done moping and will go on an adventure with Sun, tracking down the WF and building alliances which will one day create a powerful guerilla faction. She will definitely miss Yang but find comfort in Sun. Additionally, once she has a faction, her friendship with Wiess will likely be the plot element that ultimately heals the Human-Faunus tensions.

6.  Yang will not be seen much in earlier episodes and won't get a proper arc until halfway through the volume. After which, she will become more and more important to the plot. She will seek out her mother and will definiately not be the same person by the end of this volume. She will join her mother in her work.

7. Neo will take a backseat. She has never been a confrontational figure. Everything from her stature to her choice of weapon to her silence screams shy and bashful. I am a huge Neo fan but I don't think she is the type of person to drive the plot forward and create conflict.

8. Neo will  either die this volume or she will be kept on the sidelines making few appearances until the preparations for war when her skills (as a spy/double agent?) will be in high demand.

9. This Volume will act as the beginning to a new arc for the story. The story will build slowly, gaining momentum, for the next three volumes. The stakes will be relatively low this Volume compared to the Battle of Beacon which means...

10. Juane's semblence will not come out. If the Battle of Beacon wasn't high enough stakes to bring out his semblence then we will have to wait until the stakes are even higher before it comes out.

11. Due to the actions of the last volume, civil unrest will take root in Atlas against the military and government. Tensions will reach a boiling point and Marshal Law (or the Remnent equivalent) will be declared. Wiess will definitely be at the center of this conflict as even she doesn't know if Ironwood is innocent. (This civil unrest, heavyhandidness of the government, and overall negative emotions will result in a large Grimm attack.)

12. Ozpin has been captured by Salem. Their banter will give us 80% of what we need to know about their two group's conflict.

13. Crow will take up Ozpin's mantle and keep an eye on the kids and try to reunite Ozpin's scattered group. His story will be the one that ties our 4 different plot lines together and will allow the audience to step back and look at the whole picture.

14.  Remnent is definitely on a path to war but the declaration/preparations/mobilization won't begin until Volume 7.

15.  Cinder will be alive and well but she will not be as overconfident.

16. Ruby will explore the use of her Silver Eyes and will, at one point, veer off the mission to Mistral to hunt down answers about her mother.

Some of these are predictions for the entire series but they will be set up in Volume 4.