Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20130728185452/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140307174834

The Devil's Advocate WP wrote: I know Monty said that, but I still find that to be an odd statement as Oz is generally associated with green so it would seem to satisfy the rule. I've been through this with a few people and came to the same conclusion MOST of the time:

Monty HAS mentioned (prior to the OC wave) that they had a weird naming rule. Once the OC wave hit Monty released these rules. The important thing to remember here is that he has referenced the rules beforehand though never announced them.

From what I can gather from the above it would seem like Monty initially decided to implement some kind of theme and naming convention in order to stimulate creativity and think up some unique and interesting names. These rules may or may not have been abided to directly later on (such as when they were thinking up Cinder, Ozpin, Glynda or Adam) but they still seem to at least keep it in mind so that the names don't become bland (Velvet Scarlatina is a great name, they tried to keep with the convention here obviously rather than giving her a boring name like Lisa Lavender got [but keep in mind that Lisa is quite possibly the least important character in the show since she never actually got a 3D model).

They later decided to give these rules to the more prominent members of the community (those who know of them are likely more involved than those who do not) and I have to admit the quality of OC names has been pretty great since. There's also no cliche or "cool" team names like Team SOUL or Team KLLR or Team MEGA since those that tend to be implemented heavily and are well-known need to keep with the convention. Though we could do without four Team GLDN, three Team SLVR and eight Team BLCK...

It's not an absolute necessity and they probably won't continue abiding by it as heavily as they did for Team RWBY, Jaune, Pyrrha and Velvet (you can already sense the stretch required for Nora, Ozpin and Ren) but they will probably keep it in mind for creativity reasons.