Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-23712247-20160203074906/@comment-92.212.28.196-20161207074801

Imo the Grimm were inside the moon and someday the moon exploded, while releasing the Grimm to the earth. That's how the Grimm first attacked the humans. And that's why Salem only knows that mankind was born from dust, because that's the first thing she learned.

After all the moon seems to be really important later on in the series. Here's something I took from this wiki's Moon-page:

Specific reference to the moon being shattered is also made on the  RWBY: Volume 2 Soundtrack  songs " Die ": " Our path was clear / The moon watched safely from above ", " Enemies arise and the hate is flowing / Shattering the moon and bloodying the sky " and " Sacrifice ": " The moon will sadly watch the roses die. "

"Our path was clear / The moon watched safely from above"  could refer to the (potential) 'golden age' of mankind before the grimm appeared. But then with wealth and good times, there are always sime bad guys who want to get more, I thought of Akame ga kill  "Enemies arise and the hate is flowing"

" Shattering the moon and bloodying the sky "  means the explosion of the moon, which released the grimm, spreading them over Remnant.

 " The moon will sadly watch the roses die. "   could mean that Ruby will die? Because its roses (Summer and Ruby). Again from the Moon-page:

Reference to the moon is made on several occasions in the  RWBY: Volume 1 Soundtrack  in the song " Gold ": " If the stars all fall / When there's no more light / and the moon should crumble / It will be alright, " and again in the song " I May Fall ": " When we lose our faith / And forsake our friends / When the moon is gone / And we've reached our ends. "

" If the stars all fall / When there's no more light / and the moon should crumble / It will be alright, "  Maybe the moon was or is the source of the Grimm and with the last Grimm defeated in Volume 502 (maybe Salem o_O ?)  the moon will finaly be gone.

" When we lose our faith / And forsake our friends / When the moon is gone / And we've reached our ends. "    This could definitly be the end of the world. When everything is over, maybe dead, and the good (or the bad) have won.

Just some ideas I had, while I couldn't sleep. Maybe at least 1 point is vaguely correct and maybe I got someone new to start thinking about this.

To come to the dragon, I think it appeared in the great war 80 years ago because of all the negative emotions that come along with war. They sealed it somehow inside the montain or something like that and tried to make piece as fast as possible. The Faunus got Menagerie and the war ended.