Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160117163823/@comment-23712247-20160128080921

BenRG wrote: Okay, here's my prediction:


 * The rest of the volume is going to be non-stop action. I'm expecting more fatalities; possibly Team CFVY (with the exception of Velvet) and maybe Team SSSN. I think that Vale will be destroyed with only the district around Beacon surviving after a final effort from the surivors to hold their ground;


 * No, Penny isn't dead; it's harder than that to kill a Synthetic;


 * It's going to be revealed that the 'Black King' is some kind of controlling intelligence behind the Grimm and also Cinder's ultimate sponsor;


 * The events of the climax of Volume 3 will be very much 'The Beginning of the End of the World';


 * It is going to be clear that Cinder wants nothing less than the fall of human civilisation and that she intends, in the aftermath, to unite the power of the Four Maidens under her own control and use it to appoint herself a saviour, absolute tyrant and goddess of life and death for the surviors;

who's this black king?
 * At some point, Cinder is going to betray Adam and the White Fang. Any kind of organised human grouping is anathema to her goals of total destruction followed by her taking control of the scattered and helpless survivors.