Beacon Academy Initiation

After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path... or you will die.



The Beacon Academy Initiation is a process that all first-year students go through upon arrival at Beacon. Instructors grade the students for the duration of the initiation, without intervention of any form. In The First Step, Professor Ozpin mentions the possibility of death during the initiation, advising the students not to hesitate to destroy everything in their path to succeed.

It begins on the Beacon Cliffs, where students will be launched through the air into the Emerald Forest, using their own landing strategy to land safely. Upon landing in the forest, each student and the first person they make eye contact with become partners for the next four years at Beacon, and must work together from that point. Once the students have their partners, they must travel to the northern end of the forest to retrieve one of several ancient relics in an abandoned temple. Each pair selects one of those relics and returns to the top of the cliff while guarding the relic they chose, being graded according to their performance.

Through the initiation, the students are put into teams comprised of four students each, who are likely two pairs from the initiation that complement each other, or receive similar marks.

Known Participants

 * Ruby Rose
 * Weiss Schnee
 * Blake Belladonna
 * Yang Xiao Long
 * Jaune Arc
 * Pyrrha Nikos
 * Nora Valkyrie
 * Lie Ren
 * Two unknown male characters
 * Five other silhouetted figures

Known Pairs

 * Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee
 * Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long
 * Jaune Arc and Pyrrha Nikos
 * Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie

Trivia

 * Kerry Shawcross stated on twitter that Blake Belladonna was, in fact, in the launch sequence. Whether this was him taking advantage of Blake's absence and similarities to a ninja for a joke or covering for an error is unknown.
 * Nora Valkyrie mentioned the forest to Lie Ren even before they left the locker rooms. This suggests the setting for the Initiation, as opposed to the rest of the test, is not a secret.