Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31098022-20170218174614/@comment-31098022-20170226182725

To quote the show exactly

Jaune: I got this sword.

Ruby: Ooh!

J: I've also got this shield.

R: So what do they do?

J: Um the shield gets smaller so when I get tired of carrying it I can just put it away.

R: But wouldn't it weigh the same?

J: Yeah.

R: Well um I'm kind of a dork when it comes to weapons. I guess I did go a little overboard when designing mine.

J: Wait! You made that?

R: Of course. All the students at signal forge their own weapons. Didn't you make yours?

J: It's a hand me down. My great great grandfather used it back in the war.

When he says it's a hand me down he is holding and referring to the sword. Also Ruby says weapon. A sword is a weapon. Most shields are not. This is extremely nit picky but judging by the dialogue exactly and only the dialogue one could make the assumption that the sword is from the war and the shield is not.

I haven't heard of that theory of Tyrian before but I will say that it does make some sense. But beyond looking closer he did explicitly cite interest in Jaune. But as I said before this interest was not important enough for him to inform Salem of it. Also if Tyrian could sense something in Jaune then Qrow, Ozpin, Glynda, Peter and Oobleck should have sensed something in him as well while we know is no the case. Ozpin probably being the exception though because he did let Jaune in. So maybe it's his semblance which he hasn't really tapped into properly yet. Or maybe it was the fact that Jaune could support Tyrian on his shield with one arm. Or maybe like you said it was the lack of fear.

Agreed. The historians don't really know anything. Why wouldn't the king use his aura though. Ozpin's reason in my opinion would have to be because of Jaune's family because he didn't have his aura unlocked yet so it couldn't be because of his aura or semblance. Unless he needed a simple boy to be able to sort of pacify Pyrrha but I think that that is too devious and dark for Ozpin. But then again this is the man who knowingly launched a boy without training and aura off a cliff and I am positive that he didn't  do it just to see if Pyrrha works save him.

Jaune's family is definitely going to be interesting to learn about but I don't think we will see them for a while. We will probably hear about them though. Anonymous user 76.18.255.233 gave a good explanation of where Jaune's family could come be from and what class they are on Jaune's page. I agree with most of it. Jaune probably isn't from Vacuo because that's for people who can survive the harsh area. I argue against him not being from Atlas because of its military esque culture. Team FNKI is perfect evidence that not everyone in Atlas is like that. So he could be. Mistral is out in my opinion as I would assume that he would have heard of Pyrrha if that was the case and he has not made one mention of being happy to return home.

That leaves two places left.

Vale which is the most likely candidate of the kingdoms but if this is the case then we won't be seeing his family for a while as the left Vale and if his family lived there then he would have wanted to see them before leaving. Also why would he attend Beacon if he was from any other kingdom. Also considering that all long range communication is out he doesn't seem too concerned with letting his family know that he is alright which could mean that he met them already and Roosters Teeth just doesn't want us to meet them yet.

That leaves what is in my opinion the most likely candidate. His family lives in a settlement in between kingdoms. This would explain his lack of knowledge of the world.

Jaune's semblance is also going to be interesting to see him manifest.

Yep Ozpin seems all but confirmed to have been the king. But is he the original wizard or do the two souls fuse or does each predecessor train his successor. Also why didn't Qrow also explain about Ozpin to them on that night.

Ozpin was definitely interested in Jaune though. He even made him leader when he could have chose Pyrrha who was the maiden candidate. In all fairness that was done before maidens were a thing.

Why would Ozpin's hair look like Jaune's if Jaune is a descendant of Ozpin's predecessor the king? Ozpin himself probably isn't related to the king by blood like how he isn't related to Oscar. (Probably)