Volume 4

by Rooster Teeth

Months after Beacon's fall, the world has fractured. Ruby leads a small band toward Haven Academy while Weiss is trapped in Atlas, Blake hides in Menagerie, and Yang fights to recover from devastating loss. Salem has revealed herself — and she is sending her agents to hunt them down.

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

Characters

• Adam Taurus — The White Fang's most dangerous radical — having severed Yang's arm and helped destroy Beacon, Adam is now consolidating power and planning a coup aga
• Beowolf — The most common Grimm species — wolf-like creatures of darkness that hunt in packs, encountered regularly on the road through Anima.
• Blake Belladonna — A cat Faunus who fled to Menagerie after the Fall of Beacon, guilt-ridden over leaving Yang and her team — trying to hide from the world in the one pl
• Cinder Fall — The Fall Maiden, recovering at Salem's domain from the devastating injuries inflicted by Ruby's Silver Eyes — she can barely speak, wears an eyepatch,
• Goliath — Massive elephant-like Grimm seen in the wilds of Anima — ancient, intelligent, and so large that even experienced Huntsmen give them a wide berth.
• Hazel Rainart — A massive, quiet man among Salem's inner circle — his calm demeanor belies the capacity for devastating violence that Salem values in her agents.
• Ilia Amitola — A chameleon Faunus and Blake's former friend from the White Fang — conflicted, still caring about Blake even as she follows Adam's orders against her.
• James Ironwood — The general of Atlas's military — referenced as having sealed the kingdom's borders after the Fall of Beacon, cutting Atlas off from the rest of the w
• Jaune Arc — Pyrrha's partner, carrying her memory across a continent — Jaune travels with Team RNJR toward Haven, training obsessively and hiding his grief behind
• Lie Ren — The quietest member of Team RNJR — growing more silent with every mile east, as the road to Haven takes him back toward the village where he lost ever
• Nora Valkyrie — The lightning-powered berserker who keeps Team RNJR's spirits up through sheer force of personality — even when the road is long, the Grimm are many,
• Oscar Pine — A fourteen-year-old farm boy in the Mistral countryside who has started hearing a dead headmaster's voice in his head — Ozpin's soul has merged with h
• Professor Port — Beacon's former Grimm Studies professor — referenced as having remained in Vale to help with the aftermath of the Fall.
• Qrow Branwen — Ruby's uncle and protector — secretly following Team RNJR through Anima, watching from the shadows, until a scorpion Faunus's venom puts him on a coun
• Ruby Rose — The girl who watched Beacon fall and decided to keep walking. Ruby leads a small band of friends across the wilderness of Anima toward Haven Academy,
• Salem — The immortal witch behind everything — finally revealed, commanding her agents from the Land of Darkness, directing the war against Ozpin's legacy wit
• Sienna Khan — The High Leader of the White Fang — a tiger Faunus who took the organization from peaceful protest to aggressive action, but draws a line at the whole
• Sun Wukong — A golden-haired monkey Faunus who followed Blake to Menagerie uninvited — refusing to let her isolate herself, even when she insists she doesn't want
• Taiyang Xiao Long — Ruby and Yang's father — finally stepping up after years of quiet collapse, helping Yang recover from the loss of her arm and teaching her to be a bet
• Tyrian Callows — A scorpion Faunus and Salem's most devoted servant — a giggling, unhinged assassin sent to capture Ruby Rose alive, who fights with psychotic glee and
• Weiss Schnee — The former heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, trapped in her father's manor in Atlas after the Fall of Beacon — defiant, increasingly powerful, and p
• Yang Xiao Long — A brawler broken by the Fall of Beacon — Yang lost her right arm, her partner, and her confidence. She is on Patch with her father, learning to fight

Locations

• Atlas — The northern kingdom of technology and military power — its borders are sealed after the Fall of Beacon, trapping Weiss and isolating the kingdom from
• Haven Academy — The Huntsman Academy in Mistral — Team RNJR's destination, a place that might hold answers about what happened at Beacon and what comes next.
• Land of Darkness — Salem's domain — a wasteland of purple skies, Grimm spawning pools, and crystallized destruction, shown for the first time as the seat of the enemy's
• Menagerie — The Faunus homeland — a large island given to the Faunus after the Great War as a 'compromise' that was really a cage, now a thriving community where
• Mistral — The eastern kingdom on the continent of Anima — Team RNJR's destination, home to Haven Academy, and a land of vast wilderness where the frontier has g
• Patch — A small island off Vale's coast — Yang's recovery location, where Taiyang is helping her learn to fight again after losing her arm.
• Schnee Manor — The Schnee family estate in Atlas — a gilded cage where Weiss is trapped under her father's control after the Fall of Beacon.
• Vale — The fallen kingdom — still standing but diminished after Beacon's destruction, referenced as the place everyone left behind.

Items

• Crescent Rose — Ruby Rose's signature weapon — a High-Caliber Sniper-Scythe she built herself, carried across the wilderness of Anima.
• Crocea Mors — Jaune Arc's weapon — the family heirloom sword now being reforged with metal from Pyrrha's armor, becoming something new from something lost.
• Dust — Crystallized natural energy that powers all of Remnant's technology, weapons, and civilization — harder to come by on the frontier since the Fall of B
• Ember Celica — Yang Xiao Long's weapons — now only the left gauntlet remains. The right was lost with her arm.
• Gambol Shroud — Blake Belladonna's weapon — a Variant Ballistic Chain Scythe, carried to Menagerie and still as versatile as the girl who wields it.
• Harbinger — Qrow Branwen's weapon — a massive blade that shifts between greatsword, war scythe, and shotgun, carried by a man now fighting poison as well as enemi
• Magnhild — Nora Valkyrie's weapon — a war hammer and grenade launcher, as devastating on the road through Anima as it was at Beacon.
• Myrtenaster — Weiss Schnee's weapon — a Multi-Action Dust Rapier, carried even in captivity at Schnee Manor.
• StormFlower — Lie Ren's weapons — dual automatic pistols with retractable blades, quiet and precise like their wielder.
• Wilt and Blush — Adam Taurus's weapon — a red-bladed katana sheathed in a rifle scabbard, wielded by the White Fang's most dangerous radical.

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