Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4010415-20140802105040

Okay, I wanted to see how much I could figure out on my own from the scene with Remnant: The Game and all the other clues we've gotten, but as I was writing down my notes, I realized that it's kind of hard and there are inconsistencies. So... Brainstorm, guys?

Images at our disposal include the map from Ruby Rose that has points of light where the four kingdoms are, the colored map that was released, and two screenshots I took of the Remnant: The Game board.

What we know:


 * Weiss played as Vacuo, and it was implied to be in a desert area, considering her Vacuo-based cards included Sandstorm and Desert Scavenge.V2e2_remnant_game_map.png


 * Ruby played as Atlas. When talking to Ironwood (who is from Atlas), Ozpin mentioned him transporting soldiers halfway across the continent to Vale. Atlas and Vale might both be on the Vytal continent.


 * Blake was playing as Vale.


 * Yang was playing as an unknown kingdom, and apparently, as that kingdom, the Mistral Trade Route was her advantage.V2e2_rwby_jnpr.png


 * We have now heard of Haven twice. It might be an academy, especially since both it and Sanctum have a similar meaning. Signal and Beacon both have a similar meaning, and they're both in Vale. It's safe to assume that Haven and Sanctum are both in the same kingdom as each other, with Sanctum being equivalent to Signal and Haven being equivalent to Beacon. Pyrrha attended Sanctum and won the Mistral Tournament four years in a row.


 * Vale most definitely isn't on the north continent (green on the board) because that continent is mostly snowy.ValeMap.png


 * The City of Vale (read: probably the capital) is a coastal city, with its coast being in the west.


 * None of the kingdoms are on the purple continent because that's Menagerie or the blue wyvern-shaped continent because there's no point of light there.

Inconsistencies/Confusion/Vagueness whatever:


 * My first thought was that Vacuo could be the point in the far west (yellow on the board; connected to the teal), since there's a huge desert where that point is. However, when Yang defeats Weiss, she knocks over the pieces that were on the teal part (the Giant Armor figures). No other figures had been knocked over at this point because she didn't actually defeat Ruby, just cut her army in half. There's no desert in the teal region.


 * Not only that, but how can Vale and Atlas be on the same continent if Vacuo is there? If they're both on the same continent, they should take up the yellow and teal regions. So, Vacuo shouldn't be thought of as being in the yellow region anyway, unless we're misinterpreting what Ozpin meant. I'm aware that a tundra can be considered a desert, as well, but tundras don't typically have sandstorms. It's possible that Ozpin didn't mean halfway across the same continent, but rather halfway across whatever continent Atlas is on, possibly the eastern (red) continent.


 * If we're to assume that Haven really is Sanctum's "Beacon," and that both are in the Mistral Region, then they're in whatever kingdom that Yang played as. So, if Sun's team are students from Haven, then they came in from whatever kingdom the Mistral Region is part of. But... Sun showed up when students from Vacuo were supposed to be arriving. Did he get there early? People are still debating why he stowed away.


 * Yang's kingdom could be green or yellow; we don't really know. She used a Nevermore, but Ruby said her air fleet would fly right over Yang's Ursi. I'm not sure we can judge whose troops were which figures. Hell, I thought Ruby's were the Giant Armor figures because Atlas, the place of robots and androids, but those figures got wiped off the map when Weiss was defeated.

My guess:

Atlas could be the point in the red continent, with Vale being in the yellow region and Yang's kingdom being in the green continent, while Vacuo is in the teal region. However, I'm still hung up on the fact that the #1 sand desert for Vacuo to be is in the yellow region, but all of Weiss' figures were in the teal region. 