Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-26397825-20151216044520

Well, they wouldn't be the first official Academy-Graduated Huntresses, which is where the title Huntress comes from I believe, since the Academies were only built at the end of the Great War which was 80 years ago. WoR told us this much.

However, they may have been some of the first to actively hunt down Grimm and survive, rather than simply fighting them off whenever they attack where they were living or hunt them down for revenge and die because of a lack of training.