Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131108040231/@comment-11188061-20140228180808

82.12.156.248 wrote: That might be exactly why the White Fang are working with Roman. Roman (at the coercion of Cinder) wants to attack Beacon as a message to all huntsmen and huntresses and to do that they need the White Fang, and all the dust they could physically get their hands on. Beacon was clearly marked on the map in the warehouse at the end of Episode 8, seemingly as a target, and Cinder said she had big plans for everyone's favourite maniac.

They also seem to be working on a schedule, why else would they be so bold as to attack a cargo hold in the middle of the city? The Vytal Festival Finals may be the perfect event for them to strike at. Surely Glynda, Ozpin, Port and Oobleck would be drawn away from the academy, as would at a large amount of students as they flock to witness the final clash between the two best students in all of Vytal. That oughtta make Beacon a more vulnerable place. Also of note: Prior to Roman's influence, the White Fang seemingly had little use for Dust, Adam was preparing to blow such rediculous quantities sky high in the Black trailer. Sure perhaps Adam is working against the WF (he may recognise that placing that much dust in the wrong hands is a bad idea) but until that's confirmed I'm working with what has been established.

The very reason the White Fang agreed to work with Roman may be because of what lies within Beacon Academy: Blake Belladonna and Weiss Schnee. I imagine both are branded high priority individual given that Blake was seemingly quite high up in the heirarchy (for a 16 year old at least) given that she was entrusted with the heisting of a Schnee Dust Company train with just Adam for reinforcement, which to me seems like a pretty high profile job and may know quite a bit more about the White Fang and their plans than has been alluded to already and Weiss is well Weiss, as everyone has mentioned the death of what could be the sole heir to the SDC would be a devastating blow to the Schnee Dust Company, potentially even resulting in its collapse. All the White Fang need to do is find away to get close to the pair and they could manage to exact vengeance on a traitor AND potentially deliver the final blow to one of their most antagonising enemies. I think you're misunderstanding something. We're discussing towards the direction that it would be too troublesome to fight through Beacon just to assassinate Weiss. To target Beacon itself is a different issue.