RWBY
by Rooster Teeth
In the world of Remnant, young people train at combat academies to become Huntsmen and Huntresses — humanity's protectors against the creatures of Grimm. Four students — Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long — form Team RWBY at Beacon Academy, where they discover that the threats facing their world run far deeper than the monsters outside the walls.
77 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.
Characters
- Ruby Rose — A silver-eyed prodigy accepted into Beacon Academy two years early, Ruby leads Team RWBY with infectious optimism and a massive sniper-scythe, chasing
- Weiss Schnee — Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company who chose Beacon Academy over boardrooms, Weiss wields ancestral Glyphs and a multi-Dust rapier while learning that
- Blake Belladonna — A cat Faunus and former White Fang operative haunted by her past as a revolutionary, Blake fights for equality while struggling with the guilt of havi
- Yang Xiao Long — A brawler with a heart as big as her temper, Yang protects her younger sister Ruby with ferocious loyalty while grappling with abandonment by her biol
- Jaune Arc — A scraggly nobody who faked his way into Beacon with forged transcripts, Jaune slowly grows from the worst fighter in class into a selfless leader who
- Nora Valkyrie — A lightning-powered berserker with boundless energy and a war hammer bigger than most people, Nora masks a childhood of homelessness and loss beneath
- Pyrrha Nikos — The four-time Mistral champion known as the Invincible Girl, Pyrrha was the most talented fighter at Beacon and the loneliest — her fame kept everyone
- Lie Ren — The quietest member of Team JNPR, Ren survived the destruction of his village as a child and developed a Semblance that masks emotions from Grimm — a
- Summer Rose — Ruby's mother and leader of the legendary Team STRQ, Summer was a silver-eyed warrior called the greatest Huntress of her generation who left on a mis
- Taiyang Xiao Long — Father of Yang and Ruby, Taiyang is a retired Huntsman and Beacon instructor who shut down emotionally after losing two partners and had to rebuild hi
- Raven Branwen — Yang's estranged mother and the Spring Maiden, Raven leads a bandit tribe in Mistral and hides behind a philosophy of 'the strong survive' to justify
- Qrow Branwen — Ruby's sardonic, hard-drinking uncle who mentored her in scythe combat, Qrow is a veteran spy for Ozpin whose Semblance passively generates misfortune
- Salem — An immortal sorceress who commands the Grimm, Salem was cursed by the gods with eternal life after trying to resurrect her lover Ozma — she has spent
- Cinder Fall — A ruthless power-seeker who stole the Fall Maiden's abilities and orchestrated the destruction of Beacon Academy, Cinder is Salem's most ambitious age
- Mercury Black — An assassin's son with prosthetic legs and a stolen childhood, Mercury serves Cinder with detached professionalism while burying the fact that his fat
- Emerald Sustrai — A street thief turned reluctant villain, Emerald's Semblance creates hallucinations so real they fool the eyes of an entire arena — and her devotion t
- Roman Torchwick — Vale's most theatrical crime boss, Roman orchestrates Dust heists and underworld operations for Cinder with a showman's flair and a cynic's conviction
- Neopolitan — A mute, pint-sized assassin with the ability to create perfect illusions, Neo is Roman Torchwick's devoted partner whose silent exterior conceals one
- Tyrian Callows — A scorpion Faunus serial killer who worships Salem as a living goddess, Tyrian is her most fanatically devoted servant — a psychopath whose religious
- Hazel Rainart — A mountain of a man who injects raw Dust crystals into his flesh to fight through impossible pain, Hazel serves Salem to avenge his sister Gretchen —
- Professor Ozpin — Headmaster of Beacon Academy and the latest reincarnation of the ancient warrior Ozma, Ozpin has spent countless lifetimes building civilizations and
- Glynda Goodwitch — Beacon Academy's stern combat instructor and Ozpin's right hand, Glynda wields telekinesis powerful enough to repair buildings and fights with a ridin
- James Ironwood — General of the Atlas military and headmaster of Atlas Academy, Ironwood is a half-cybernetic soldier whose desperate need to protect his kingdom drive
- Oscar Pine — A freckled farm boy from Mistral who woke up one day with an ancient wizard's voice in his head, Oscar struggles to maintain his own identity while gr
- Arthur Watts — A disgraced Atlas scientist who faked his death and joined Salem, Watts is a tech genius whose wounded ego and aristocratic contempt make him the fact
- Winter Schnee — Weiss's elder sister and Atlas Military Specialist — disciplined, exacting, and secretly chosen to inherit the Winter Maiden's power.
- Penny Polendina — The world's first synthetic person with a genuine soul — an android girl of boundless warmth who becomes the Winter Maiden.
- Maria Calavera — A tiny, sharp-tongued elderly woman who was once the most feared Huntress alive — the legendary Grimm Reaper, bearer of silver eyes.
- Adam Taurus — A radicalized bull Faunus and former White Fang leader — Blake's abusive ex-partner whose righteous anger curdled into possessive, violent extremism.
- Sienna Khan — The former High Leader of the White Fang — a tiger-striped Faunus who believed in aggressive resistance but drew the line at terrorism, and paid for t
- Ilia Amitola — A chameleon Faunus who can shift her skin color with her emotions — a former White Fang operative torn between loyalty to the cause and loyalty to Bla
- Sun Wukong — A golden-haired monkey Faunus from Vacuo — impulsive, loyal, shirtless by choice, and constitutionally incapable of minding his own business.
- Neptune Vasilias — Sun's smooth-talking partner from Haven Academy — a blue-haired charmer with a trident and a deeply ironic fear of water.
- Velvet Scarlatina — A soft-spoken rabbit Faunus and second-year Beacon student whose camera weapon lets her copy any fighting style she photographs.
- Coco Adel — Team CFVY's fashionable leader — a second-year Beacon student who carries a designer handbag that transforms into a gatling gun.
- Clover Ebi — Leader of the Ace Operatives, Atlas's elite Huntsman unit — a confident soldier whose Semblance is literal good luck.
- Professor Port — Beacon's bombastic Grimm Studies professor — a rotund, mustachioed veteran Huntsman who tells long-winded stories about his own heroism that may or ma
- Beowolf — The most common species of Grimm — wolf-like creatures of darkness that hunt in packs and are drawn to negative emotions.
- Nevermore — A massive avian Grimm with a bone-white mask and razor feathers — an aerial predator that attacks from the sky with devastating strafing runs.
- Goliath — An elephant-sized ancient Grimm — so old and intelligent it has learned to avoid human settlements rather than attack them.
- Wyvern — A dragon-like Grimm of apocalyptic scale that spawns lesser Grimm from its body — the creature that brought Beacon Academy to ruin.
- The Apathy — Skeletal humanoid Grimm that drain the will to live — the most psychologically terrifying species, killing not through violence but through hopelessne
Locations
- Vale — The central kingdom of Remnant — a temperate, cosmopolitan nation of forests, coastline, and the shattered legacy of Beacon Academy.
- Atlas — The northern kingdom — a floating city of military power and technological supremacy hovering above the impoverished city of Mantle.
- Mistral — The eastern kingdom — a vast, culturally diverse land of mountain cities and port towns where art, trade, and organized crime flourish in equal measur
- Vacuo — The western desert kingdom — a harsh, egalitarian land where survival is the only qualification that matters and formal authority is openly mocked.
- Beacon Academy — The premier Huntsman academy in Vale — a campus of gothic spires and green grounds, now fallen and overrun after the catastrophic Grimm invasion.
- Atlas Academy — Atlas's combined military and Huntsman academy — a sterile, disciplined institution where soldiers and Huntsmen are forged under Ironwood's command.
- Haven Academy — Mistral's Huntsman academy — an elegant institution with Asian-inspired architecture, secretly compromised by its cowardly headmaster's betrayal.
- Shade Academy — Vacuo's Huntsman academy — a desert fortress where the entrance exam is surviving the journey and the curriculum is staying alive.
- Emerald Forest — A vast, Grimm-infested forest bordering Beacon Academy — beautiful, ancient, and used as a proving ground for student initiations.
- Forever Fall — A hauntingly beautiful crimson forest near Beacon where the leaves are permanently red and students collect sap for Professor Peach's class.
- Mountain Glenn — A failed expansion of Vale — an underground ghost city overrun by Grimm, used by the White Fang as a staging ground for their assault on Vale.
- Amity Colosseum — A massive floating stadium that hosts the Vytal Festival tournament — a symbol of inter-kingdom unity that became ground zero for Cinder's conspiracy.
- Schnee Manor — The grand, cold mansion of the Schnee family in Atlas — a gilded cage of wealth, control, and unhappy childhoods.
- Patch — A small, peaceful island off Vale's coast — the rural hometown of Ruby and Yang, and the place where broken Huntsmen come to rest.
- Menagerie — The Faunus homeland — a small continent granted as a 'gift' after the Great War, overcrowded and under-resourced but fiercely independent.
- The Land of Darkness — Salem's domain — a blackened wasteland of Grimm pools, corrupted terrain, and a dark castle where the immortal queen plans humanity's extinction.
- Beacon Tower — The CCT communications tower at Beacon Academy — where the Fall Maiden's power was stored, where Ozpin fell, and where the Wyvern now roosts.
- City of Vale — The main urban center of the Kingdom of Vale — a coastal city of commerce, culture, and a growing crime wave tied to Dust theft.
- Argus — A northern Mistral coastal city near the Atlas border — a joint military outpost where kingdom tensions simmer beneath a picturesque surface.
- The Ever After — An otherworldly fairy-tale dimension beneath Remnant — a surreal landscape of talking animals, impossible geometry, and existential transformation.
Items
- Crescent Rose — Ruby Rose's signature weapon — a High-Caliber Sniper-Scythe that she designed and built herself at Signal Academy.
- Myrtenaster — Weiss Schnee's weapon — a Multi-Action Dust Rapier with a revolving chamber that loads six types of Dust for elemental versatility.
- Gambol Shroud — Blake Belladonna's weapon — a Variant Ballistic Chain Scythe that shifts between katana, cleaver, pistol, and ribbon-grapple.
- Ember Celica — Yang Xiao Long's weapons — Dual Ranged Shot Gauntlets that extend from bracelets into full shotgun-powered boxing gauntlets.
- Crocea Mors — Jaune Arc's weapon — a family heirloom sword and collapsible shield, later upgraded with metal from Pyrrha's armor.
- Magnhild — Nora Valkyrie's weapon — a war hammer that transforms into a grenade launcher, as bombastic and devastating as its wielder.
- StormFlower — Lie Ren's weapons — dual automatic pistols with retractable blades for a precise, flowing combat style.
- Harbinger — Qrow Branwen's weapon — a greatsword that transforms into a scythe and a shotgun, wielded with the reckless precision of a man who doesn't expect to g
- Melodic Cudgel — Roman Torchwick's weapon — a gentleman's cane that fires explosive Dust flares and conceals a grappling hook, as theatrical as the man who wields it.
- Wilt and Blush — Adam Taurus's weapons — a red katana (Wilt) sheathed in a shotgun scabbard (Blush), used in a devastating iaido draw-slash fighting style.
- Relic of Knowledge — One of four divine artifacts — a golden lamp that summons the spirit Jinn, who will answer three questions per century with absolute truth.
- Relic of Creation — One of four divine artifacts — a blue staff with the power to create anything, currently sustaining Atlas's floating platform above Mantle.
- Relic of Destruction — One of four divine artifacts — a red sword of immense destructive power, sealed in Shade Academy's vault in Vacuo.
- Relic of Choice — One of four divine artifacts — a crown sealed in Beacon Academy's vault, its power tied to the concept of choice itself.
- Dust — Crystallized natural energy that powers all of Remnant's technology, weapons, and civilization — the lifeblood of the world and the Schnee Dust Compan
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