Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160103163552/@comment-26206856-20160108035453

Though those are all possible, I still think she's after something bigger, possibly even some hidden relic beneath Beacon only Ozpin knows about. The main plan seems to be acquiring dust in order to run Remnant dry, short-hand hunters, and raise prices. Gaining the maiden powers was just "another [side] task" they attended to to further their goals and make it easier for themselves to accomplish the main goal. Which may be Vol 4 or later from the way this is going.

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Ep 8 Trailer

I kind of thought Nora's spiel about losing was some sort of foreshadowing, but she's spelling out what is going to happen to Yang / RWBY since it seems no legal/military action is going to be taken against Yang.

Well, next episode Yang runs off to find her mother and avoid humiliation after Qrow jokes with her about being crazy and realizing he has to explain what Raven is like/up to. Ruby and Blake are hard pressed to believe Yang's story, and Weiss runs off/ gets taken back home with Winter for unsafe/unsatisfactory teammates. Velvet questions Ruby about her sister as she see's Weiss off/ tries to get her to stay.

Juane notices Pyrrah moping and gets a heavily veiled response/complaint about the maiden business, and winds up convincing Pyrrah to go through with it anyway, probably with some sappy (I will be your sheild/ carry half your burden) line.