Volume 2

by Rooster Teeth

Team RWBY returns for their second semester as the Vytal Festival draws foreign students to Vale. But Blake's obsessive investigation into the White Fang leads the team to the ruined underground city of Mountain Glenn — and a plot to breach Vale's walls from beneath.

46 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Adam Taurus — Blake's former partner in the White Fang — a masked bull Faunus radical whose shadow hangs over Blake's obsessive investigation and the organization s
• Beowolf — The most common species of Grimm — wolf-like creatures of darkness that hunt in packs and are drawn to negative emotions.
• Blake Belladonna — A cat Faunus no longer hiding — her team knows what she is now, and she's channeling all of that freed energy into an obsessive investigation of the W
• Cinder Fall — No longer just a shadow — she's enrolled at Beacon as a Haven exchange student, walking the same hallways as the people she's plotting to destroy.
• Coco Adel — Team CFVY's fashionable leader — a second-year Beacon student who carries a designer handbag that transforms into a gatling gun and has zero tolerance
• Emerald Sustrai — Cinder's green-haired thief — disguised as a Haven exchange student, deeply devoted to Cinder, hiding an illusion Semblance that makes her one of the
• General James Ironwood — General of the Atlas military and headmaster of Atlas Academy — arrived in Vale with an entire fleet for the Vytal Festival, a show of force that has
• Glynda Goodwitch — Beacon Academy's stern combat instructor and Ozpin's right hand — the woman who actually keeps the school running while the headmaster argues with gen
• Jaune Arc — Still the weakest fighter at Beacon, but a semester of Pyrrha's secret rooftop training has made him less terrible — he's growing into his role as a l
• Lie Ren — The quietest member of Team JNPR — composed, skilled, and Nora's anchor since childhood, communicating more with a look than most people do with a par
• Mercury Black — Cinder's grey-haired enforcer — disguised as a Haven exchange student, cocky and combat-skilled, hiding prosthetic legs beneath his pants.
• Neopolitan — Roman Torchwick's silent partner — a pint-sized illusionist who communicates through violence and theatrical gestures, and one of the most dangerous f
• Neptune Vasilias — Sun's smooth-talking partner from Haven Academy — a blue-haired charmer with a trident and a deeply ironic fear of water.
• Nevermore — A massive avian Grimm — territorial aerial predators that patrol the skies beyond the kingdom walls.
• Nora Valkyrie — A lightning-powered berserker with boundless energy and a war hammer bigger than most people — she masks something harder beneath relentless enthusias
• Penny Polendina — Ruby's quirky, impossibly strong friend — back in Vale for the Vytal Festival, cheerful as ever, and hiding a secret about what she actually is that g
• Professor Ozpin — The enigmatic headmaster of Beacon Academy — now visibly at odds with General Ironwood over how to handle the growing threats to Vale.
• Professor Port — Beacon's bombastic Grimm Studies professor — a rotund, mustachioed veteran Huntsman who tells long-winded stories about his own heroism and occasional
• Pyrrha Nikos — The four-time Mistral champion known as the Invincible Girl — the most talented fighter at Beacon and the loneliest, because fame keeps everyone at ar
• Qrow Branwen — Ruby's uncle and scythe-fighting mentor — a veteran Huntsman referenced but not seen in Volume 2, the man who taught Ruby everything she knows about c
• Roman Torchwick — Vale's most theatrical crime boss — now operating from an underground base in Mountain Glenn, loading a train with Dust and Grimm-bait for an assault
• Ruby Rose — Team RWBY's leader, now settling into her role — a sixteen-year-old scythe-wielding prodigy who's proven she belongs at Beacon, even if she's still th
• Summer Rose — Ruby's mother — a Huntress who left on a mission and never came back. She exists as a grave on a cliff and an absence that shapes everything Ruby does
• Sun Wukong — A golden-haired monkey Faunus from Vacuo — now a familiar face at Beacon after helping Blake at the docks, sticking around for the Vytal Festival and
• Taiyang Xiao Long — Ruby and Yang's father — a retired Huntsman and Signal Academy teacher who stayed on Patch while both daughters left for Beacon.
• Velvet Scarlatina — A soft-spoken rabbit Faunus and second-year Beacon student who endures casual bullying with quiet dignity — her teammates are less patient about it.
• Weiss Schnee — Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company whose worldview is cracking — one semester of knowing Blake has made her question every assumption her father taugh
• Yang Xiao Long — Ruby's fiercely protective older sister — a brawler with a big personality, golden hair she treats like a religion, and growing concern about Blake ru

Locations

• Amity Colosseum — A massive floating stadium hovering above Vale — the arena where the Vytal Festival Tournament will be held, a symbol of inter-kingdom unity.
• Beacon Academy — The premier Huntsman academy in Vale — now buzzing with exchange students from all four kingdoms as the Vytal Festival approaches.
• Beacon Tower — The central spire of Beacon Academy — housing Ozpin's office and the Cross Continental Transmit System that links Vale to the world.
• City of Vale — The main urban center of Vale — transformed by Vytal Festival preparations, buzzing with foreign visitors, and hiding a conspiracy in its tunnels.
• Emerald Forest — A vast, Grimm-infested forest bordering Beacon Academy — beautiful, ancient, and the proving ground where teams RWBY and JNPR were forged.
• Forever Fall — A hauntingly beautiful crimson forest near Beacon where the leaves are permanently red — field trip destination and the backdrop for Jaune's confronta
• Mountain Glenn — A failed expansion of Vale — a ruined city overrun by Grimm, with underground tunnels that the White Fang is using as a staging ground for an assault
• Patch — A small, peaceful island off Vale's coast — the hometown of Ruby and Yang, where their father teaches at Signal Academy and their mother's grave overl
• Vale — The central kingdom of Remnant — hosting the Vytal Festival, buzzing with foreign visitors, and hiding a conspiracy in its tunnels.

Items

• Crescent Rose — Ruby Rose's signature weapon — a High-Caliber Sniper-Scythe that she designed and built herself at Signal Academy.
• Crocea Mors — Jaune Arc's weapon — a family heirloom sword and collapsible shield, the simplest weapon at Beacon and a legacy he's trying to live up to.
• Dust — Crystallized natural energy that powers all of Remnant's technology, weapons, and civilization — and the target of a massive theft operation across Va
• Ember Celica — Yang Xiao Long's weapons — Dual Ranged Shot Gauntlets that extend from bracelets into full shotgun-powered boxing gauntlets.
• Gambol Shroud — Blake Belladonna's weapon — a Variant Ballistic Chain Scythe that shifts between katana, cleaver, pistol, and ribbon-grapple.
• Magnhild — Nora Valkyrie's weapon — a war hammer that transforms into a grenade launcher, as bombastic and devastating as its wielder.
• Melodic Cudgel — Roman Torchwick's weapon — a gentleman's cane that fires explosive Dust flares and conceals a grappling hook.
• Myrtenaster — Weiss Schnee's weapon — a Multi-Action Dust Rapier with a revolving chamber that loads six types of Dust for elemental versatility.
• StormFlower — Lie Ren's weapons — dual automatic pistols with retractable blades for a precise, flowing combat style.

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