Volume 3

by Rooster Teeth

The Vytal Festival Tournament brings the four kingdoms together in celebration — until Cinder Fall's plan ignites. In one catastrophic night, Beacon Academy falls, friends are lost, and the team that fought so hard to come together is scattered to the four winds.

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

Characters

• Adam Taurus — The leader of the White Fang's militant faction — Blake's former partner turned obsessive stalker, leading the assault on Beacon with the fury of a ma
• Beowolf — The most common species of Grimm — wolf-like creatures of darkness that hunt in packs, drawn to the fear and despair now saturating Beacon.
• Blake Belladonna — A cat Faunus who has reconciled with her team after the White Fang revelation — but Adam Taurus is still out there, and the guilt of her past is about
• Cinder Fall — The architect of Beacon's destruction — a power-hungry infiltrator posing as a Haven transfer student, wielding stolen Maiden fire and a plan that wil
• Coco Adel — Team CFVY's fashionable leader — a second-year whose handbag transforms into a gatling gun and who has zero tolerance for anyone messing with her team
• Emerald Sustrai — Cinder's devoted follower — a street thief with the power to make people see things that aren't there, loyal to Cinder out of desperate need for belon
• General James Ironwood — The headmaster of Atlas Academy and commander of the Atlesian military — half his body is cybernetic prosthetic, and his response to every threat is m
• Glynda Goodwitch — Beacon Academy's stern combat instructor and Ozpin's right hand — part of the inner circle that knows about the Maidens, the Relics, and the war no on
• Jaune Arc — The boy who faked his transcripts has become a real leader — still not the best fighter, but the one who notices when something is wrong, and the one
• Lie Ren — The quietest member of Team JNPR — composed, skilled, and Nora's anchor, communicating more with a look than most people do with a paragraph.
• Mercury Black — Cinder's enforcer — a skilled kickfighter with prosthetic legs and a sociopath's comfort with cruelty, posing as a Haven transfer student while engine
• Neopolitan — Roman Torchwick's silent partner — a diminutive, mute woman with heterochromatic eyes, a parasol blade, and an illusion Semblance that makes her impos
• Neptune Vasilias — Sun's teammate from Haven — a self-styled cool guy with blue hair, an irrational fear of water, and a trident that shoots lightning.
• Nevermore — Massive avian Grimm that patrol the skies — during the Fall of Beacon, flocks of them descend alongside the Wyvern, strafing the campus with razor-sha
• Nora Valkyrie — A lightning-powered berserker who masks something harder beneath relentless enthusiasm — competing in the Vytal Festival with the same maximum energy
• Penny Polendina — The world's first synthetic person with a soul — an android who is competing in the Vytal Festival Tournament, unaware that she's been set up as a paw
• Professor Ozpin — The headmaster of Beacon Academy — an ancient soul reborn across lifetimes, now desperately trying to protect the Fall Maiden's power while a conspira
• Professor Port — Beacon's bombastic Grimm Studies professor — serving as tournament commentator alongside Dr. Oobleck, providing enthusiastic and long-winded play-by-p
• Pyrrha Nikos — The Invincible Girl, four-time Mistral champion — burdened with a terrible choice after Ozpin offers her the Fall Maiden's power, knowing it could cos
• Qrow Branwen — Ruby's uncle and scythe mentor — a veteran Huntsman and member of Ozpin's inner circle, watching the festival from the shadows and knowing that someth
• Roman Torchwick — Vale's most theatrical crime boss — imprisoned after the Breach but still a piece on Cinder's board, sardonic and dangerous even behind bars.
• Ruby Rose — The sixteen-year-old leader of Team RWBY — two years younger than her peers, still fighting with infectious optimism and a sniper-scythe, unaware that
• Summer Rose — Ruby's mother — a silver-eyed Huntress who left on a mission and never came back. Her legacy shapes everything Ruby does, and the silver eyes Ruby inh
• Sun Wukong — A golden-haired monkey Faunus from Vacuo — Blake's friend and reliable ally, competing in the festival while keeping one eye on the girl with the bow.
• Taiyang Xiao Long — Ruby and Yang's father — a retired Huntsman and Signal Academy teacher on Patch, about to receive the worst news a parent can get.
• The Wyvern — A massive Grimm dragon drawn to Beacon by the despair and terror of the Fall — ancient, enormous, and spawning lesser Grimm from its body as it flies.
• Velvet Scarlatina — A soft-spoken rabbit Faunus and second-year Beacon student whose weapon — a camera that photographs and holographically replicates any weapon she sees
• Weiss Schnee — Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company who has grown from entitled princess to loyal teammate — still sharp-tongued, but her prejudices are cracking and h
• Winter Schnee — Weiss's older sister — an Atlas military specialist who escaped the Schnee household by enlisting, carrying the same hereditary Glyphs but none of the
• Yang Xiao Long — Ruby's fiercely protective older sister — a brawler at the peak of her confidence, competing in the Vytal Festival singles bracket with a fighting sty

Locations

• Amity Colosseum — A massive floating arena built for the Vytal Festival Tournament — hovering above Beacon, broadcasting fights to the world, and about to become the st
• Beacon Academy — The premier Huntsman academy in Vale — host of the Vytal Festival, guardian of the Relic of Choice, and ground zero for the catastrophe that will scat
• Beacon Tower — The central spire of Beacon Academy — housing Ozpin's office, the CCT relay, and beneath it the vault where the Fall Maiden lies dying and the Relic o
• City of Vale — The main urban center of Vale — festive with Vytal celebrations, patrolled by Atlesian soldiers, and about to become a warzone when the military turns
• Emerald Forest — A vast, Grimm-infested forest bordering Beacon Academy — during the Fall, the Grimm that nest here will be among the first to respond to the wave of n
• Forever Fall — A hauntingly beautiful crimson forest near Beacon where the leaves are permanently red — site of past field trips and a quiet counterpoint to the viol
• Mountain Glenn — A ruined expansion of Vale overrun by Grimm — the site of Volume 2's climactic mission, now referenced as the origin of the Breach that shook public c
• Patch — A small, peaceful island off Vale's coast — the hometown of Ruby and Yang, where their father waits and where the survivors will retreat after the Fal
• Vale — The central kingdom of Remnant — hosting the Vytal Festival, celebrating unity across the four kingdoms, and about to experience the worst attack in i

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 still trying to live up to.
• Dust — Crystallized natural energy that powers all of Remnant's technology, weapons, and civilization — the resource that the Vytal Festival celebrates and C
• 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.
• Wilt and Blush — Adam Taurus's weapon — a red-bladed katana paired with a rifle-integrated scabbard, designed for devastating iaido draw-slash attacks amplified by his

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