Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20161111003308/@comment-25266931-20161115004920

@ Someone: I hope we can trust them. Also I use caps because it's suppose to let you know I raised my voice as I spoke those words.

But yeah, Minidagger is right.

As I said I went back thru the episodes and looked for connections. Has Salem been watching these events from episode 1? Her nararating seems to imply she's looking thru the eyes of crows or some cystal ball or the Grimm and commenting on Oz's efforts. Whenever you hear her it starts out calm and motherly and hopeful, then switches to sinister. The first episode she nararated is the heist of the dust shoppe. She even speaks on the WoR episodes until this season when it's been revealed she's evil and now Qrow is the nararator for WoRs. Like covering their tracks before she becomes less of an enigma.

As for the Grimm, how much do we know about how the feed on negativity. Is it possible that we could, in theory, love them to death? If negativity makes them thrive then what of the opposite sentiments? Maybe it's not just the that Grimm are "dark dust" but maybe they're our negative emotions instilled in the dust residue after we use it.

Lots of dust was used in war. Lots of negative in fighting. Grimm gravitate to strife. "Even the most brilliant lights ficker and die, and when they are gone, darkness will return" (Salem, ep1). If this isn't a ref to Grimm then it may be a nod at her true intentions.

Now where am I going with this? Think back to the fact that they said Grimm have been around as far back as humanity can remember. But what is Oz and Salem aren't human? What if they're depowered gods of creation. Salem making the Grimm and Oz nuturing the humans and Faunus. Dust can be triggered by your aura. So maybe it can be rework or reshaped by your aura too. Maybe that's how Salem does it. She takes left over dust residue, gathers it together and reworks it into monster and then the monster are fill with the negative sentiment left over from what the dust was used to do (like kill).

She says that mankind has forget that they are "remnant, byproducts of a forgotten past". To me this SCREAMS that RWBY's cast are descendant of humans from Earth or that Ozpin or another god made them (or a computer did like Deus in Xenogears).