Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20140801004849/@comment-8207536-20140803051848

Lets not forget that the opening likely happened a LONG time ago; legends fade and all that. What with the ruins in the Emerald Forest and the commentary about the ancient people who built them, I'm wondering if the four kingdoms that we know now may not be the ones from antiquity; those ruins were nowhere near Vale proper.

That in mind, I'm wondering if as settlements move, and with so little revealed about the nature of dust, aura, semblences, and the creatures of Grimm themselves, perhaps the faunus are a mutated branch of humanity; a force like dust could not have be discovered without accidents. Perhaps victims are left for dead or entire settlements are just presumed gone and viola isolated pockets of strange-looking humans crop up.