Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170708180328/@comment-26397825-20170819021004

The Great War was over territory and land and it was sparked betwen Vale and Mistral because everything in Anima had been settled., so the Emporer of Mistral sent people to settle on Sanus. In the 10 years it took for them to reach treaty negotions on Vytal, the Grimm attacked and destroyed enough villages for that to no longer be a thing - nature has long reclaimed the land in quite a few places we saw RNJR travelling through. When you think about it, the Grimm pretty much wiped out half of civilisation only 80 years before the story starts.

This next part is filled with my own observations drawn from what we have been told about Remnant.

The Faunus went to war because of the treatment they were enduring, primarily from Mantle and Mistral. WoR: Faunus told us that humanity used the differences between humans and faunus to exploit and alienate them, and that it was the Great War  that won them not only equal rights, but a place to settle without human interference.

And here is where my own observations come in. Due to how Qrow said a lot of Faunus saw it for what it was - a slap in the face - I believe humans hadn't settled Menagerie. Humans pretty much said "Fine, go live in this wild corner of the world and get out of our hair" and didn't offer any help in getting a civilisation set up. Then when Faunus were slow going because it was wild and untamed and unsettled, and didn't move out of the Human Kingdoms quick enough, the  Humans tried to force them to all move there immediately which is what led to the Faunus Right Revelution, right on the tail end of the Great War.

The Faunus of course won that revolution, which gave them the right to continue living in human settlements and take their time shoring up the defenses and claiming at least the small part of Menagerie they have now. So everything you see on Menagerie is new; it's even newer than Atlas is as a Kingdom, because Atlas took over an old Kingdom with existing infrastructure less than 80 years ago, after the Great War, but Menagerie had to build from scratch in the same time period.