Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20170816155108/@comment-28288412-20170818162615

I highly doubt there are thousands of Huntsmen being trained in Beacon. I would say at highest one thousand, counting all the years.

The reason for me thinking this is due to a number of factors:

1. General population of Remnant. Likely to be far lower than ours due to the Grimm as well as the occurence of the Great War being fairly recent in their history. Combining this with Sun who has been to three out of the four kingdoms but still judges the fairly spacious by our world's standards Menagerie as cramped IIRC and you also get an idea of general population density in the major population centers of their planet.

2. Aura. Well, activated aura. Doesn't seem to be too common and works a notable limiting factor.

3. Not everyone with an activated aura wants to become a Huntsman. Whether they're a criminal or no, just because they activated their aura somehow doesn't mean they want to go into one of the most dangerous occupations on the planet.

4. Not everyone who applies gets accepted into the academy. Just because we see special cases like Ruby and Jaune doesn't mean that everyone gets let into these places. They're known as prestigious for a reason after all.

5. Typically with other education centers on our planet they teach skills and grant qualifications for a number of different professions. Not always the case I know but still. The Huntsman academies to our knowledge train people to become just that, Huntsmen. This specification also serves as a limiting factor on top of everything else.