Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-15108745-20130811001851/@comment-10390252-20130811142707

I have to emphasise that this is ENTIRELY guesswork, but it feels good:

*4-6 months before Episode 1

Ruby is told the truth of her heritage by the Longs. She makes a months-long pilgrimage to the Snowy Forest and Summer Rose's memorial. There she encounters the Beowolves, the first Grim monsters she's seen outside a children's storybook (and, indeed, the first time a Grim has been seen by someone who has lived to tell the tale in this generation).

The Transient Princess first comes to Yang's attention whilst she's reviewing Hunter case histories as pre-Academy study reading. She deduces (mostly by instinct) that this person is the real perpetrator behind several criminal acts. Because the police aren't interested in a 16-17 year old girl's insistance that a very important figure is involved in an evil plot, she starts trying to collect solid evidence on her own.

An Armour Giant security robot malfunctions and nearly kills Weiss one night at the White Castle. She is left scarred and refuses her father's offer for reconstructive surgery (mostly to annoy him).

*Three months before Episode 1

Weiss holds her final concert before starting at Beacon Academy.

Blake and Adam attack a SDC munitions shipment; Blake abandons Adam (something that has been brewing for a while) and approaches Ozpin personally to get into Beacon Academy. For a variety of personal and political reasons, Ozpin uses up a few favours to have Blake's record laundered and a fake school record is produced for her so she can attend the Academy.

Ruby starts on her journey back to civilisation.

*A few weeks before Episode 1

Ruby arrives back in Vale City (much to her adoptive parents' relief).

Roman, under pressure from Crimson for more results, intimidates Junior into lending him manpower to steal more Dust from shops and warehouses in Vale.

After a string of dead-end leads, Yang goes for broke and smashes up Junior's club, looking for solid evidence that The Transient Princess is up to no good.

Ozpin, having been given Ruby's report on the Beowolves by Crow, asks Glynda to start surveillance on the girl to determine her abilities and emotional maturity.