Talk:Relics/@comment-27045477-20171024225711/@comment-27045477-20171025053709

You don't see how 4 macguffins in specific locations across the map railroad the story into a very straight formula?

As for the Maidens thing, I have a theory as to what's going on. I think Monty had two plans, the original plan and the second plan, which he was replacing the original plan with, but he passed away before finishing the second plan, and M&K were only able to implement the first part of that second plan in V3, and are now trying to go off of his original plan, with some of the leftover elements of the second plan just floating there. Look at how many elements and characters fill the same role from a story perspective, and how many weren’t referenced prior to V4. Think about it. If Monty was planning on using the memeteam all along, why did he create CMEN? Why did he give them all that stuff in V2 and V3? Setting up Neo as a rival for both Yang and Ruby, Emerald and Mercury’s pasts…and another thing. Cinder’s whole plan in V3, she never, not even once, mentions the godrock she’s supposedly looking for there. Ozpin says nothing about protecting it. It’s like the entire awful plot device just popped out of nowhere in V4.