Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-24994749-20141216145828

LiveandSound wrote:

If I remember right, Faunus used to be..."contained" in some place that I have forgotten it's name, prior to the war. We, however, don't know if they have always been there, or if only after humans found them.

"This is prior to the Faunus Rights Revolution, more popularly known as the Faunus War!" "Humankind was quite, quite adamant about centralizing Faunus population in Menagerie."

So the faunus (or at least a significant amount of them) aren't native to Menagerie, humans just were expelling them there which eventually trigered the war.

I do wonder what was first: The great war 80 years ago or the Faunus War?

My personal interpretation for the faunus war is that it was, like the colonization of America, an expansion. The kingdoms found themselves in want (need?) of more land and went for the ones belonging to the faunus (that would have had more or less established civilizations, think like the Inca or the Azteca or like the Ancient Greek city states) to save up the job of having to clean up territory from Grimm presence themselves. Menagerie sounds like colonisers in the USA when they forced the natives into reservations, just that humans in Remnant kicked the faunus out to another continent entirely.