Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140926004722/@comment-24891101-20140926010022

Ironwood's clearly just a proponent of proactive threat elimination, as I thought, not a traitor. His failing is he is heavy-handed, and bound to be too zealous at some time in the future. I expected as much from a general of what seems to be a militaristic people.

A war of cultural genocide. That is really damn interesting. One wonders how much of Remnant's culture remains, surviving the initial purge which led to the war. To what end, and what organization thought that a good idea? What nation was the aggressor. I'm reasonably certain this wasn't the Faunus War, though that probably owes its origin to aftereffects of a world war. Based on Blake's comments about the White Fang, I'd say the Faunus War was no more than two generations ago, if that.

Mr. Xiao Long is clearly very eccentric. But, there's an explanation for how the dog survived: Aura! All animals have it, it'd likely passively improve survivability. Also, he could have literally hand-delivered it to Beacon on his way out of town. Wonder where he's going? Needless to say, the dog is in the backpack, and is going to get free at the most inopportune time imaginable.

I'm excited to see Oobleck in combat. And Ozpin is really very pragmatic.