Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27276671-20160214220907/@comment-66.185.192.130-20160719211157

Now is my fourth, maybe fifth, list of possible elements to look forward too in volume 4.

1. Team RWBY will be separated for the entirety of the volume, and possibly the next, with one girl in each kingdom.

2. Since all of Remnant believes that Atlas was behind the Fall of Beacon, distrust and paranoia between the kingdoms will be at an all time high, and there will be foreshadowing of a war.

3. Ruby will be traveling to Minstral along with Team RNJR, while serving as it's leader. She will have gained better control over her Semblance and maybe have been trained in hand to hand combat by Ren.

4. Weiss will be in Atlas forced to work at the Schnee Dust Company, my guess is in public relations or something. She will also have been forbidden from even attending Atlas academy, and essentially forced to retire as a Huntress. However I do imagine that she will be training in secret to improve her skills and to summon the Giant Armor at will. What's more due to her friendship with Blake she will be more sympathetic to the plight of the Faunus.

5. Blake will be in Vacuo on the run from the White Fang and off the grid. No Friends, No Allies and, no one to target, no one to trace. She'll be wracked with guilt over what happened to Yang and the actions of Adam and the White Fang in general, constantly feeling sorry for herself. Eventually something will happen to get her fire back like, let's say for arguments sake that she meets a Faunus child who's parents were forced to join the White Fang as soldiers, or something like that which will lead her to take a more active role against the White Fang.

6. Yang will still be in a slump from everything that happened to her. Her reputation was ruined, her school was destroyed, her arm was forcibly removed, and her teammates abandoned her in her hour of need, yeah she won't be recovering from that anytime soon. She more then likely spend her time wondering aimlessly through Vale, maybe getting into fights with the more audacious bystanders, saying things like "she got what she deserved" or worse make sick arm jokes. She probably won't snap out of it till the end of the volume at the earliest. She will most likely get her Robot Arm in volume 5.

7. The Gang will face of against new types of Grimm, even Aquatic ones.

8. The final scene of the volume will be Cinder waking up from a coma induced by Ruby's powers.

9. Team RWBY will get weapon upgrades, well at least Ruby will.

10. Jaune will be have become much stronger motivated my Pyrrha's death, but we won't learn what his Semblance is in this volume, we my learn Ren's though.

11. Well will meet Penny's father and maybe get some hint that he is rebuilding her.

13. Neopolitan will be stalking Ruby because she thinks that she killed Roman.

14. Mercury and Emerald will be working to further the distrust between the Kingdoms.

15. Team SSSN will have a larger role then they had before.

16. Due to the scale of the current crisis Ironwood will probably keep his job as the head of the Atlas military for no other reason then Atlas can't afford to loose a competent and talented General with the risk of a war hanging in the air, but I imagine that there will be a lot of distrust for him among the civilians of Atlas and the people in other kingdoms.

16. We will learn the identities of the remaining three Maidens. Personally I still think that Winter is the Winter Maiden.

17. Team RNJR ether knows about the Maidens or they will find out about them, probably from Qrow.

18. There will be new characters from each kingdom like the Principals of the other two Academies, and maybe the other members of Team FNKI.