Talk:Branwen Tribe/@comment-2600:387:9:4:0:0:0:89-20171119144313/@comment-34012932-20180116205610

Raven Branwen

If Raven's plan was to distance herself from Ozpin, remove herself from those she was then bonded to (the rest of team STRQ, her child), and any human contact other than her bandits then there must have been compelling reasons.

In traditional mythology, the usual cause of this kind of drastic action is an unfortunate prophecy (which trying to avoid just summons it in more ironic fashion).

The process of becoming a Huntress, an agent of Ozpin, finding love and becoming a mother (deliberately or not), and discovering the true scope of the secret battle for Remnant makes abandoning every thing (her adversaries would know) she loves her only choice.

Who did she choose to flee to? No one she cared about at the time, I think: "murderers and thieves." Maybe that's all they were to start with, but to gain control of the Clan Raven probably eliminated the most dangerous ones.

That probably wouldn't have been a problem for Raven at first, being able to use portals to stage attacks on remote towns without real defenses.

That would also reduce the need to train her vassals enough to threaten her position as leader. She would need reliable subordinates (Vernal, for example), able to really fight and go abroad on independent missions when necessary.

From that point on, information becomes more important to Raven.

The Just Right shopkeeper: that fellow had a pretty nice business right next to the Clan's main camp. Who is he, anyway? Another set of eyes, perhaps.

She would spend more time scouting nearby towns, monitoring Salem and Grimm activity, and watching Ozpin's agents than she did before quitting STRQ and Ozpin's faction.

It's likely that the Spring Maiden's power complicated this plan immeasurably and did nothing but paint a target on her head.