Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-11188061-20131108081535

So, in regards to the 'Queen has Pawns' statement, most people have already guessed the obvious meaning.

It's funny, I'm actually tasked to hold a small chess competition among my colleagues - oh you know, the usual morale raising, job delaying, let-you-relax-then-kill-you-with-a-billion-pressure-later trick, yep, my morale is soaring as high as fuck... ANYWAY.

Back to the point. I'm talking about the hidden meaning behind the pawns. For those familiar with chess rules, they would understand that pawns could be sacrificed... or promoted into something else, and almost one would choose to swap it for the strongest chess piece of the game - the Queen.

What's even more interesting, of course, is that there are no limits to how many Queens there are on the field, as long as you can get the Pawns up to the eighth rank of the board.

So there are a few important things Qrow's trying to convey here:

1) The one lonely Queen (one way to interpret it) in the past is no longer alone, and that she has a real force of support now. Her forces.

2) Defeating or killing the Queen is not the end of the story, because her Pawns can succeed in her place. In fact, if the Queen allows it, all of her Pawns can become Queens themselves and have terrifying powers to be reckoned with. And then you'll have three superpowers instead of just one to deal with.

If the analogy is indeed talking about Cinder and her two subordinates, then we have at least guess what kind of role the trio is going to play.

Finally, there is one last thing we could glean of from this message. Cinder, as dominant looking the Big Bad as she is now, may not be the ultimate Big Bad of the entire series. Again, if the message is referring to them, then it is incredibly likely that Cinder may face a betrayal from her own Pawns and be killed, so that they could ascend and become a Queen themselves - Cinder would likely never allow them to become one, unless it was the most extraordinary of circumstances.