Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.247.91.107-20140511154823/@comment-10390252-20150224102441

Shinnypichu88 wrote: JayHart wrote: Similar to the theories suggesting that Grimm are a result of Dust interacting with humanoids' emotions, I assume. but grimm were around before dust was discovered? The Creatures of Grimm were obviously around before the human population on Remnant discovered Dust but that doesn't mean that it wasn't already extant and affecting the environment. In fact, I would have thought that it was obvious that Dust had been around for a very long time before humans discovered how to use it.

How would this fit into my scenario? Remember, that the 'crashed space miners' would have been hard-pressed to survive. In any case, knowing that there was a crystalline energy source all around them does not mean that they woud have had the know-how to use it. In any case any knowledge that wasn't about immediate day-to-day survival would have been lost over a period of possibly centuries. This process may have been acceleratated by early Grimm attacks that would have doubtless devastated what little infrastructure the marooned humans had available to them.

If the humans were originally Dust miners from another world and came to Remnant due to a Dust mining accident on the moon, it might explain how, according to their mythology, humans were 'born from Dust'.

It might also give another possibly option as to Cinder's ultimate goal. Maybe she's one of a cult that, by some luck, faith or research, has found humanity's true origins. Because men are meant to live in the stars, they're trying to encourage human emigration from Remnant. The way they've chosen to do so is to make the planet inimitable to humans by destroying the Kingdoms, so that the survivors will have no choice but to use the knowledge discovered by the Cult to flee back into the stars.