Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14883220-20151221200429/@comment-26397825-20151221225738

And the guy in the video also wears a hood. Oh look! Summer and Ruby also wear hoods! They must be descended from him as well. It must be some sort of family tradition to always wear a hood.

And it's his great-great grandfather. Assuming they all had a kid at the age of twenty, his GG Grandfather would be 97 (because Jaune is only 17). He'd have been 17 at the time the Great War ended, possibly a little bit older due to people having kids later in life. Sure, he'd be in the prime of his life and recruiting soldiers as the first Huntsmen would probably be a good idea, but don't you think that if he warranted a statue in front of Beacon people would know about him?



I'm sure there'd be history lessons, possibly even a plaque on the statue itself that says "Name and Name with their weapons, Name and Name." That's what history books and statues do. Put names of people and weapons on things.

The dates don't line up for him to have been anything super special in the War; it's far more likely he was just a young soldier. He could still use the sword in the War, but he wouldn't warrant a statue until later in life. And later in life he would have installed the shield-sheath - if indeed early versions of Crocea Mors didn't have it, which there has been no indication for but all the indication that the sword and sheath were always part of a matched set - which the statue doesn't have.

This theory that everyone keeps pushing has no real basis behind it yet, other than Jaune saying 'My GG Grandfather used the sword in the War", there's a yellow Huntsman in the Huntsmen WoR video - he's not even in the Vytal Festival video, which was about the war - and he looks forlornly up at a statue of some random using a generic sword. That's it.