Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20141010002549/@comment-165.234.189.216-20141020041612

MetallicArcher wrote:

165.234.188.186 wrote: If mountain glenn was a slight against faunus,you'd think Blake would be the firs tochime in about it, but for the most part the knowledge has been largely left to Oobleck and The sisters, who're actually from Vale. Just because Blake grew up within the Faunus Civil Rights movements it doesn't mean she knows every single detail about faunus history. Also, if her childhood was as many of us imagine, odds are that before Beacon she never received any sort of formal education, so whatever history she was taught was very limited to whatever the higher ups were interested in her knowing. There is, too, the possibility she isn't native to Vale (Weiss, who is from Atlas had not even heard Mountain Glen's name).

Also, as you said, Yang and Ruby, being from Vale (though I still hold my doubts about just how connected to Vale Patch is), didn't know much beyond it being a failed expansion.

That's the whole point of Oobleck having been sent with them. They needed a dude with a freaking doctorate in history/archaeology for him to have accurate knowledge of the area to carry out the field work. And even so, Oobleck needed to see the hole in the floor before he remembered the caves system.

Finally, if the whole Mountain Glen thing was so disastrous (as Oobleck puts it doomed to fail from the start), it is possible the authorities buried the whole thing very deep. Hence why:

- when Blake and Sun heard about the South-east they didn't think about Mountain Glen automatically (but when Oobleck explained what Mountain Glen was she immediately recognised it as a potential hide out). - even after doing a ton of research, Blake couldn't pin-point the south-east. - when team RWBY selected quadrant 5 they didn't automatically think of Mountain Glen. Bit late, in response, but Yang and pressumably ruby clearly knows the gist of what went down at Mt. Glenn. They might not have known it went underground. But when the two talk about it, Yang clearly brings up that not only was it a failed xpansion but that it was overrun by grimm and fenced off from the rest of the city. So it's clearly not secretive info that the populace of Mt. Glenn died that way. Now the specifics of how they died might have been lost, but it's rather clear that for folks from Vale know, Mt Glenn is a necessitated tomb