Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-92.232.230.34-20130719223612/@comment-10390252-20130905192618

ImposterParrotGrass wrote: I've been thinking about the whole "even the most brilliant lights eventually flicker and die" thing from the opening speech. In a dark interpretation, maybe it refers to humanity as a whole. Maybe it will a end with humans dying out, and the Fauna reigniting civilization.

Now, I don't necessarily believe this, but I wouldn't be suprised to find that it's Adam or White Fang's interpretation. I believe that there may be a literal interpretation to that line. I think that there are literal lights that hold back the Grimm, shades of the Dragonfires in Elder Scrolls - Oblivion. Just as in Oblivion, there is a concerted effort underway by Dark forces to extinguish those lights. The human (and Faunus) patsies behind these efforts have all been fed the right level of bull to believe that it will bring them power when, in fact, the Grimm would just annihilate them all.