Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.247.91.107-20140511154823/@comment-25857155-20150301013639

I must clarify something here - my personal belief is not that Raven left to go fight for the Faunus War, or even anything related to the Faunus War (which I personally believe was over before team RWBY was conceived, that is, created in the womb). Rather, I believe originally left Taiyang to help Ozpin and Qrow with their plans, but found/learned something that made her think her family would be at risk if she stayed. Possibly something to do with Ozpin/Cinder that falls under the "not supposed to know that" category. She wouldn't have left until to start with until at least a few months after Yang's birth, and would only have stopped by Taiyang's home briefly a month or so after leaving the first time to say her 'final farewell.' This theory of mine would likely be changed very little if she turned out to be a Faunus.