Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-7407875-20130324030315/@comment-7713314-20130420230243

Well, a friend of mine and I were looking for stuff to do last night. I'd told him of RWBY a little after the 'White Trailer' was released and then we hadn't talked about again. He asked about it last night, curious, and I caught him up. We then spent the next couple hours going over the emblems and their colors.

We're fairly convinced that this other team will be inspired by mythological deities. Hammer and bolt are obviously Thor. The spear and shield are a reference to Sparta, which is reinforced by its color, so Ares. After looking through some other pictures, we're 100% sure that the flower is indeed a lotus, and the color is nearly the same as the Indian Lotus. So we're thinking either an Indian deity or the lotus-eaters from the 'Odyssey'. Given the other two, I'm putting money on an Indian deity.

The most frustrating though was the "cresent moon". For the second, we came to the conclusion that it is a moon, it's not a cresent one. Using the image from the Rooster Teeth store, it's obvious that the points/arms/ whatever you want to call them are meant to face down. If it were a cresent moon, they'd be facing the left or right sides. We did think that it might represent a sun, given the color, so we started looking into Egyptian deities and found Atum, sometimes known as Atem, a creator deity that is associated with the setting sun. He's also been shown wearing the "double crown" that symbolizes a combined Egypt. Seeing as the black cresents of the symbol look like tiaras, we thought it might be possible. The "double crown" is known as the pschet, and it doesn't look anything like a tiara. But as Monty is only looking to have similar ascetics...