Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20170114144645/@comment-10390252-20170114223050

I just checked the transcript. Jaune tells Ruby that his great-great grandfather was the one who fought in the war, so the Great War was probably about 100 years before present. That's just long enough for memories to start get muddled and for a family, if they really wanted to, to slip into obscurity and for people to stop looking for them.

As I've already said, I'm not wedded to this bit of speculation but I don't think that there are any narrative red flags. If anything, it pretty much fits into the the very heavy-handed myth, legend and fairy tale allusions that RT use in RWBY.