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OH MY GOD, THE LORE IN THESE EPISODES!! I can't wait to watch more!

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Grim_Jaxx

Bagel!! You have no idea how excited I was for you to get to this info dump! ^.^

Grim_Jaxx

At 1:42 you asked about what happened to cinder’s arm. It’s implied that Ruby fought cinder on the top of the tower and took Cinder’s eye and her arm. But its not confirmed lol

Ridzy

Now you know how the planet got its name Remnant "This world was a beautiful experiment but it is merely a remnant of what it once was" We were supposed to get an origin for the Faunus this episode but it was cut because the episode was to long already The map of the world actually foreshadowed that gods dragon forms with the top left of the map looking like the more western style of dragon that the god of darkness looks like and on the right side the top of the land mass looks like the eastern style of dragon that the god of light looks like Now i can share my head cannon for what Dust is. I like to think that after the god of darkness nuked the world and turned everyone to ashes traces of magic stayed in the ashes and over millions of years or however long it took for humanity to evolve on Remnant those bits of magic collected and condensed into dust crystals kind like fossil fuels so the modern RWBY world runs off the crystallized remains of the original humans and large dust deposits are just where old kingdoms use to be because they had higher population density One last detail I like about the magic in RWBY is there is no healing magic because it was a gift from the god of darkness

CheetsAC7

The most horrifying aspect of this show for me is that Salem likely wandered the world alone for thousands, if not hundreds of the thousands of years completely alone. Waiting for an end that wouldn't come. All because she missed her lover. I really enjoyed you putting together how inconsistent, careless and unfair the Brothers are.

Sweg Money

Looove these episodes. I admire the tragedy of Salem/Ozma so much, especially since the way it's been done, the Brothers seem intent on changing each of them permanently (Grimmification/Reincarnation melding) so they can truly never be together even if they do find a way to both die. I feel like it's portrayed as a boon to Ozma but it's secretly and intentionally extra punishment for Salem, because they need to beat Salem because she hasn't given up. Also, always suspicious of the fact that only the god of light was there to give Ozma the mission. Given that he blames his brother for the destruction of humanity, it feels like he's trying to give himself plausible deniability for what happened because he needs the people to love him, as implied by the "rules that work ever in your favor" thing. Like they never settled that fight the god of light just diverted his brother's anger onto Salem.

Sweg Money

Also, shout out to any Fallen London/Sunless Sea/Sunless Sky/Mask of the Rose players. Idk if there's any crossover here but Salem's whole deal is very reminiscent of the Great Chain conflicts in those stories

Sweg Money

Also, and this is not as explicit in the text, but my understanding is that the four maidens are NOT the kids, but rather four sisters that reminded Oz of his own children, and he gave them his power as a classic Oz/Salem extreme grieving process maneuver

Gizen

The thing with the gods is that they're gods in the greek tradition, aka yes they're absolutely petty assholes, but they're also still GODS, and if you mess with them you're not going to win. Which is where Salem's flaws came into play. Yes, the gods were jerks and they suck, but it doesn't change that they're way out of her league and it was arrogant on Salem's part to keep trying to pick a fight with them. There comes a time when you've got to know when to cut your losses and just give up, and she refused to do so even as she just kept making the situation worse over and over and over again, and then never accepted responsibility for her own part in making everything go to hell. Yes, the gods are the ones who destroyed the world because they suck, but they'd never have done it if she had just accepted that there are some things in life you just can't have control over, but to the very end she maintained that she did nothing wrong actually. Basically Salem has an ego every bit as large as the gods do, but without the power to back it up.

MapleLeafSoup

Ah, here’s the disillusionment arc, very pleased with your opinions. I personally swapped to disapproval of Salem when she started actively manipulating the kingdoms and such. Given the words of the gods “bring humanity together”, it can at least be theorized that despite having kingdoms, the world was for the most part peaceful, perhaps with minor squabbling and conflict. I believe this is why, along with her power, Salem was able to persuade and deceive the rulers to go against the gods. They had simply never seen someone with her level of power/ She is most definitely pitiful, and the gods were very willful in how they handled her situation, but after soaking in the dark pools, plus what she does after and even to the present, she is unequivocally evil now.

Nicolas English

So Salem originally went to the God of light since at the time the people worshipped him since he was creation. The God of Dark was seen as destruction so people feared him and rarely talked to him. Salem believing the same things went to the God of light with the belief that he would restore ozma. When Salem went to the God of darkness in defiance to the god of light she made the gods break a pact they had made after the creation of humans to not interfere with the decisions they imposed on their creations. Because she deceived the God of Darkness into bringing back ozma after the refusal of the God of light. She was punished for manipulating the gods and breaking the promise the gods had between each other. Due to the culture around the gods people rarely ever went to the God of darkness to ever ask for anything so was probably the reason Salem did not go to the God of darkness first as well. Salem refusal of the decision of light led her to having to deceive darkness and led her to be punished. What the gods did as punishment may have been extreme but was an attempt to make Salem understand the sanctity between life and death and to respect those who can wield those powers and that because this balance is so delicate it should not be messed with.

Chaumin

Several pieces of lore revealed in these episodes. Lil Miss Malachite is the mother of Melanie and Miltia Malachite, the twins we see working at Junior's bar in the Yellow trailer and in Volume 2. In regards to the Relic, we know one question had been used so far. It's never revealed who asked that question or what was asked, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was Raven. Not much to go on for that theory though. In an earlier Volume reaction, you made the observation of the dragon-shaped continents on the world map. They're modeled after the brothers' dragon forms. Also, the God of Darkness's Grimm, "the brother's Grimm," is an obvious reference to the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Each character has fairy tale roots, not all Disney princesses, but Salem is inspired by Rapunzel, and after being Grimmified, the Wicked Witch of the West. Also, imagine you're just chilling somewhere, uninvolved in all the drama, and you get wiped from existence anyway. RIP lmao One of the very first lines in Volume 1 Chapter 1, which is narrated by Salem, is "Man, born from Dust..." This implies that the remnants of the first human population is what created the second. They no longer had access to magic, but the previous generation's magic became Aura and Semblances, and of course Dust. And yeah, the Gods' motivations and actions are messy. They punished Salem for her greed and arrogance, but it was certainly overkill. And it raises the question of how modern day mankind would react to them. They're so far removed from any knowledge of the Gods at this point, and if Salem is ever defeated, it's highly unrealistic that everyone would be on board with bringing them back given the Gods' temperamental nature. Anyone could piss them off again and start this whole thing over. In my opinion, Remnant is better off without them. The Kingdoms aren't at war with each other following the Great War, and the Gods' presence would seem more like a huge risk than anything.

Mare

Exactly. That was explained in detail in one of the episodes of World of RWBY Season 3 ep4 "The Story of the Seasons" (or "The Four Maidens"). In fact it was briefly mentioned in Volume 3 of the main series too, with Pyrrha describing the fairy tale in Ozpin's offic.

Mare

20:48 In her human form, she is alluding to Rapunzel. In her witch form, Salem is the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. And Characters in RWBY aren't just fairy tale characters. They also come from popular folklore, mythology and well known novels like "The Wizard of Oz" as I mentioned. Oz' allusion is The Wizard and Qrow is the "Scarecrow." But Monty, the main creator, had always pointed out that while the characters have their main allusions, they are not locked down to them. They can take on traits of other kinds of allusions too. So while Qrow is the Scarecrow, he is also Huginn while Raven is Muninn, which makes Oz also the "Odin" of the story as well.

Mare

20:59 Team RWBY allusions: Not all of them are Princess characters: Ruby Rose: Based on "Little Red Riding Hood." Weiss Schnee: Based on "Snow White." In fact Weiss' full name translates to "White Snow." Blake Belladonna: Based on both "Beauty AND the Beast" (her duality between faunus and human traits) Yang Xiao-long: Based on "Goldilocks" (but also shares an allusion with Bruce Lee aka "Xiao-Long Li" as well as "Yang Guo" from "Return of the Condor Heroes") Team JNPR (All based on Gender bent versions of heroes) Jaune Arc: Based on "Joane of Arc" Nora Valkyrie: Based on "Thor" Pyrrha Nikos: Based on "Achilles" Ren Lie: Based on "Mulan" Ozpin: Based on "Wizard of Oz"/ Odin Glynda Goodwich: based on "Glinda the Good Witch from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Ironwood: Based on "Tinman" Lionheart: Based on "The Cowardly Lion." Qrow: Based on the "Scarecrow" and Huginn from Norse Mythology. Raven: Based on "Muninn" from Norse mythology but also loosely based on the Goddess Branwen from Welsh and Celtic mythology as she was the "a maiden goddess of springtime, love, beauty, freedom, and new beginnings." Which is her connection to being a Spring Maiden in the series. And of course Salem: Human form based on "Rapunzel" and Witch form based on "Wicked Witch of the West."

Mare

38:41 No, they are NOT on Earth. The planet that RWBY takes place on is called "Remnant" but we don't know what the previous planet's name was. The current name was taken from what the God Brothers had mentioned, that it was a "Remnant" of what it used to be. So it's like this. The planet is basically and universes were what the Brothers (Darkness and Light) created and like Light had said, it was an "Experiment."

Mare

56:49 The Brothers (Darkness and Light) were based off of Greek gods though their primary literary allusion is actually to the Brothers Grimm. Consistent with RWBY's theme of fairy tale allusions, the two brothers are primarily modeled after Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. In fact, Jinn even refers to them explicitly as the "Brothers Grimm" in this volume. The show's creators also took inspiration from Greek deities, who were infinitely powerful yet extremely flawed, petty, and temperamental. Instead of acting as benevolent deities, the brothers display jealousy, pride, and wrath. Similar to the Greek gods, who often cursed mortals who tried to trick them or defy natural laws ( such as Sisyphus or Prometheus) the brothers punished Salem with eternal immortality for attempting to cheat death and manipulate them.

Wobbler

Tbf, they're gods. You can't really compare your own morality to the person that made morality in the first place. Can't really level with someone who is quite literally beyond our understanding.