Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160704021457

Ok so we know that Salem/Cinder's goal in Volume 3 was met but that couldn't have been her ultimate goal. Was it really just to destroy the CCT and Beacon Academy. Granted she did release a giant dragon/wyvern Grimm but it's now stuck on top of Beacon. And what about what Qrow saw. "I've seen the things she's built. They are fear." Which is confirmed by Rooster Teeth to be refering to Salem and not Cinder or someone else.

Well from what we know about Salem it seems she is trying to destroy Ozpin at every cost, find all of the Maidens and either take their powers, destroy them, or maybe make them join her, and revert Remnant to the dark fear-filled days before Dust, as evident by her monologue in Volume 1 and Volume 3 (They fit so perfectly together they have to be one). She also seems to have some control over the Grimm (possibly tieing back to the Lord Grimm theory) as shown by the fact that she embeded a Grimm beetle into a glove for Cinder's use and by the fact that Cinder can at least communicate with the Grimm Dragon/Wyvern.

So from what I can gather her main goal in Beacon was to destroy Ozpin while throwing the other Kingdoms into unrest from the "horrific" events Cinder orchestrated, and it seemed to have worked. But how does she plan on destroying the rest of Remnant? Simple. Through fear. Oh. You're confused? Let me explain.

What is the one thing we've seen in every season that has always stayed in the background. Leave your guess down below first then read the rest.

Done? Ok!

In every single intro for every single volume, we see a huge black sphere and what follows in either destruction or sadness.

Volume 1:



Volume 2:

Volume 3:

In the Volume 1 intro after we zoom into Cinder's eye Team RWBY is standing under a black sphere that then shoots a dark beam at them while they're surrounded by Grimm might I add. In Volume 2 Team RWBY opens their eyes and sees a black sphere. The sphere then shoots a wave that dissolves everything away. In Volume 3 a black sphere fades in from the close up of Qrow's sword and starts pulsing. We then cut to Team RWBY and Team JNPR in freefall and Team JNPR flying away after.

So maybe these spheres are the weapons or objects Qrow said were fear. Heck one even apears after zooming into Qrow's sword which implies a connection to Qrow (which may be that he say it). We see it constantly destroying things and leading to tragedy. Maybe this device/object/spell is powered by fear and unrest like the Grimm and if there is enough Salem can carry out her master plan. Reverting the world to the Dustless, Grimm filled days.

But who could possibly stop her? Qrow the recon man who saw what she was up to? Nope. Ironwood and the rest of Atlas' military? Definatly not. How about Ozpin who Salem clearly wants dealt with. Maybe but that's not what I think. The only one who can stop her now is Ruby Rose the Silver Eyed Warrior with the power to dispell Grimm, and Salem's powers seem to be related to and come from the same source as the Grimm. Now this may contridict some of my previous statements that Ruby's Silver Eye powers of freezing the Grimm and Pyrrha's inability to even inherit at least part of the Maiden's power is down to genetics but if this current theory is true then it will be more satisfying than any other theory.

Now for this to work Ruby has to be the last SEW. Why? Beacuse Chosen One. Moving on, this also may explain Salem's knowladge of Summer Rose. Why do I say this? Well... "So you send your guardians. Your Huntsman and Huntresses. When they fail and you turn to your smaller soul, know that you sned her to the same pitiful demise." The "smaller soul" in this instance refers to the SEW, in particular the last one, Ruby. When she says "the same pitiful demise" this obviously implies she knows about Summer Rose. What I think happened is many years before our current events in RWBY Ozpin found about something about an evil that Salem was planning and sent in Summer Rose to try to stop it using her powers. But Salem bested her and killed her.

This is why Ozpin is so much more protective of Ruby, she's the last SEW. And Salem knows it. This is probably why Ozpin didn't try to give the Maiden powers to child prodigy Ruby as it would put her even more in the line of fire. But as Salem was saying, Oz's guardian, Pyrrha, has fallen, now it's the Huntsman's turn. And soon they will all fail and Ozpin will have to turn to Ruby, his final hope, to destroy Salem and her evil, or she'll die trying. Cue epic 3-4 part finale to Ruby and my theory being praised. Ok not that last part.

Anyway leave your feedback down below.

Also on a less important not I started playing Pokemon X again to prepare for Sun and Moon and caught a wild Shiny Magneton. I named it after everyone's favourite ashpile, Pyrrha Nikos. 