Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-5430952-20160927191650

BenRG wrote: So, speculation time! What do you think is the story of that burning town in the trailer thumbnail?

I'm thinking that it is a town somewhere on the east coast of Vale. We know that settlements outside the city states are always in peril anyway but I suspect that the effective fall of Vale and the destruction of the CCT system at the end of volume 3 has cut off even the most established of towns from help in a time of crisis because there simply isn't the infrastructure or organisation anymore to send out a call for aid or for said help to be gathered and quickly dispatched. You wonder just how many of these imperilled settlements Team RNJR have helped over the time skip.

The town definitely looks inland so, unless there is a harbour off the right side of the picture, this isn't the place where our plucky heroes are catching their ride to Mistral. Either that, or it's a settlement located on the Mistral continent, outside the actual kingdom. Qrow did say there were such settlements in that area, so I wouldn't be surprised if this might be where he visited in his tale to Ruby and Yang. Though now with the CCT down, the Grimm have overrun it and it's apparently become a ghost town. And I daresay it's not the first to fall since the collapse of Beacon, nor will it be the last, for the worst is yet to come.