Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10317392-20130906010815/@comment-11188061-20130911052611

The main topic here is to discuss exactly what the map means and how it plays into Roman's current plans. As such, I have no intentions of ever discussing about the far-future events like some extremely far-fetched ideas you guys have throwing all about. I could state here right now that the Grimm are the good guys and all humans are evil, and given enough time and effort I could personally write up a fanfic with plausible reasons and extremely good plot twists. The point is, discussing about the 'ultimate' plan now basing off Roman's single map is like reading the one alphabet 'A' at the front and assuming then the entire word would read off as 'Apple'. And you don't even know the actual length of the word, or the word is part of a sentence itself.

I am in fact surprised that after 110 replies nearly every single person automatically assumed that Roman was going to somehow kill everyone in the world and let the Grimm reign supreme or something like that. If we look at long term sure, this may eventually be the beginning point something horrific, but that's already deviating from the original question. Even those few that actually tries to explain what Roman's CURRENT motives and plans are include thinning out Beacon's forces FOR THE GRIMMMM!!!!! Or accidentally for the Grimm yada yada yada and such.

Now that I've my fit of egoistic boost, let's focus on the main question here: Exactly what Roman is planning to do CURRENTLY. Let us reference from his actions during Episode 1. What was he doing? Robbing Dust Shops for Dust. And that is your answer.

... What? As compared to you people who assumed that Roman was going to somehow attack Beacon my idea is far more plausible. The X-marked spots indicate places that he has or hasn't hit yet. The O-marked spots indicate either his hideouts, or the opposite of X-marked spots, though I'm inclined to believe that the O-marked spots are hideouts. The Circle With a Dot indicates his exact current location which is at a place somewhere in the Industrial District. The Arrows refer to a category that belongs to a certain region. Admittedly the Arrows part is a little flimsy (they don't necessarily mean the same thing), but it's as far as one can get accurately without straying into fanfiction territory.

Remember, the dude wants to rob Dusts and is robbing Dusts. This is the first season. It is unlikely that we're going to have a super climax so early into the game where Roman starts attacking Beacon, the place where the absolute best of the best warriors are. Our Team RWBY and Team JNPR had taken down 2 freaking Boss Class Grimms on their initiation day. Unless Roman somehow summoned thousands of men and armed every single one of them with Dust, he is not going to take down Beacon no matter what.

I know a lot of you are big dreamers, but if you actually want to come up with a plausible, correct theory you better start thinking along the scale as shown by the evidences.