Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20170114144645/@comment-4010415-20170119013230

70.195.136.237 wrote: I'm honestly not too sure when the whole "If you can survive here, you're welcome here" mentality started. Personnally I think that mentality got started during or after the great war, around whenever Vacuo's paradise got raised, and a lot of settlements got raised back then.

You could be entirely right and certain historians tried to forget that she was a Fanuas. Personally I like to think that by the end of the war she was the badass who earned the Fanuas a lot of respect in Vacuo and helped establish the attitude that anyone who is strong enough to live and fit in with the citizens of Vacuo is welcomed there.

-DefconDeceiver Do you mean razed? I kind of think that Vacuo's paradise got ruined before the Great War, or at least began being ruined before the Great War. In WoR: Vacuo, the story pretty much went that they lived in an oasis paradise, but then other kingdoms (Mantle and Mistral, then Vale) showed up for the Dust mines and started ruining the paradise. Mistral and Mantle already had presence in Vacuo's territory when the Great War was going on.

We now know that the SDC started... after the Great War, was it? So, the imagery of Schnee factories/mining facilities is from after the Great War, pretty much showing how ruined the environment there is in the present day.