Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20141104001939/@comment-226878-20141104034423

The idea that the meeting was a dream does not detract from the theory she is Yang's mother or that she will try to recruit her. Note that I did not specify the scene would pick up where we left off with Yang meeting Raven. It could be that Raven meets up with Yang a few episodes in.

I didn't forget Adam, I just didn't have any ideas as to what role he would play in the upcoming volume besides being in charge of the White Fang. I guess he could possibly confront Blake, but I kind of doubt that would happen since we still haven't even seen the battles between RWBY and CRME (call it chrome, not crime or I'll start start stabbing people)

I definitely feel Taiyang and Qrow's meeting will be a planned event. Likely Qrow contacted Taiyang for the same reason he contacted Ozpin. It seems that Ironwood got this memo too, hence his arrival in Vale and his statement about Qrow during Welcome to Beacon.

I completely forgot about Ren. Easy to do since JNPR kind of fell away from the limelight this volume. The mission to that village Jaune talked about has to be fleshed out so we can understand its significance to Ren.

As for Beacon becoming unimportant, as I recall, the theory was that the establishment would be more or less "physically" destroyed, leaving what few Huntsman and Huntresses we currently know as the last line of defense against the current threat.

We also need to expand upon the Council. They, as any decent men behind the curtain should be, are very mysterious (read as: shady) and personally, I don't trust them. I didn't like that emergency powers were granted to Ironwood. That's never good. Martial law leads to big problems and we're bound to the consequences of this starting at the first episode of next volume, I feel.