Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-24891101-20141031004110

Huh.

The Plan seems to have misfired, since it doesn't seem to have accoplished much. Admittedly, there's fighting elsewhere in that region, but it barely did any damage. Professional Hunters are really powerful. And even a few years at Beacon turns one into an absurd badass. CFVY shows up and casually takes the situation in hand. Down goes the WFL/Yatsuhashi theory. Coco's weapon beggars belief. Still no Sage or Scarlet.

Part of the Plan seems to be an ingratiation ploy, with Roman apparently happy to be the fall guy. Still nowhere near understanding what they're after. Ironwood saves the day, thereby justifying his paranoia.

And there's politics. What's really interesting is that Vale's government appoints a foreign general to a security post, and was using him as an investigator, rather than keeping it in-house. So, as was fairly obvious, Ironwood is the overly-aggressive type, but he means perfectly well; he's just making a power play.

Apparently Atlas' kit is actually useful against Grimm. Good. I expected nothing less.

Adam appears! Apparent he does have considerable pull. There goes my notion of him being merely a high-level troubleshooter. He's apparently got some aptitude for command.

And credit where due, Thorn got it right. It's all but confirmed that Vermillion is Yang's mother, who is Qrow's sister, and whose surname is Branwen. As we thought. That was quick; I'd expected them to draw it out over the break.

Lots of interesting developments and machinations.