Volume 8

by Rooster Teeth

Salem brings war to Atlas. As the floating kingdom crumbles, impossible choices must be made — who to save, who to sacrifice, and what happens when the person with the power to stop everything asks you to let her go.

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

Characters

• Arthur Watts — The disgraced Atlas scientist whose virus infects Penny and whose contempt for everyone around him finally gets him killed — trapped in a burning room
• Beowolf — The foot soldiers of Salem's army — wolf-like Grimm that pour from the whale in hundreds, filling Mantle's streets with darkness and teeth.
• Blake Belladonna — The girl who used to run is done running — Blake fights alongside Yang as a committed partner while Atlas burns around them.
• Cinder Fall — Salem's most ambitious and least reliable agent — Cinder attacks Atlas for the Maiden power and the Relic, betraying Salem's plans for her own hunger.
• Emerald Sustrai — The reluctant villain who finally broke — Emerald defects from Salem's faction and joins the heroes, because watching atrocities for someone who doesn
• Goliath — Ancient elephant-sized Grimm that normally avoid settlements — now marching in Salem's army because their queen has called, and today is finally the d
• Hazel Rainart — The mountain of a man who served Salem for revenge finally sees the truth — Hazel turns against Salem and sacrifices himself to buy the heroes time to
• James Ironwood — The general who became the tyrant — Ironwood's desperate need to save Atlas has driven him to threaten genocide, shoot dissenters, and abandon every p
• Jaune Arc — The boy who faked his way into Beacon is now a Huntsman being asked to do the unthinkable — and when Penny asks him to end her life so Winter can inhe
• Lie Ren — The quiet one found his voice — Ren's Semblance evolved to sense emotions, and he uses it to navigate the impossible politics of a kingdom tearing its
• Maria Calavera — The legendary Grimm Reaper — ancient, cranky, and helping coordinate the evacuation of two cities because someone with sense needs to manage logistics
• Neopolitan — A mute assassin driven by grief for Roman Torchwick — Neo fights Ruby across Atlas, silent and relentless, and falls into the void alongside the team.
• Nora Valkyrie — The girl who runs on lightning took too much of it — Nora is injured, scarred, and fighting to figure out who she is when she can't swing a hammer.
• Oscar Pine — The farm boy with a wizard's soul — captured by Salem, tortured, but not broken. Ozpin returns to protect him, and Oscar uses the Relic of Creation's
• Penny Polendina — The world's first synthetic person with a genuine soul — Winter Maiden, virus-infected, fighting for control of her own body, and about to make the mo
• Professor Ozpin — The ancient wizard returns — Ozpin emerges from hiding inside Oscar's mind to protect the boy from Salem's torture, finally reconciling with the team
• Qrow Branwen — Ruby's uncle — freshly escaped from imprisonment after being framed for Clover's murder, Qrow fights through Atlas with rage and grief and the despera
• Ruby Rose — The silver-eyed leader who kept walking when every road ended — Ruby fights to save Atlas and Mantle while learning that wanting to protect everyone d
• Salem — The immortal queen of the Grimm arrives at Atlas personally — sitting atop a whale the size of a mountain, patient as death, regenerating from everyth
• Tyrian Callows — Salem's fanatical scorpion Faunus assassin — giddy with religious ecstasy as the war he worships his goddess for finally arrives at Atlas's doorstep.
• Weiss Schnee — The former heiress fighting for the kingdom that raised her and the sister who stayed — Weiss defends Atlas and Mantle while watching everything the S
• Winter Schnee — Weiss's elder sister and Atlas Specialist — torn between duty to Ironwood and her own conscience, Winter becomes the Winter Maiden after Penny's death
• Yang Xiao Long — The brawler who leads her own team into the belly of a monster — Yang charges into Salem's whale to save Oscar because someone has to and she's done w

Locations

• Amity Colosseum — The floating arena repurposed as a communication tower — Ruby's group fights to get it broadcasting so the world knows Salem is real and Atlas needs h
• Atlas — The floating kingdom under siege — Salem's Grimm army attacks from above while Ironwood's martial law crushes from within, and the city will fall befo
• Atlas Academy — Ironwood's fortress — the combined military-Huntsman academy that has become a command center for a general at war with everyone, friend and enemy ali
• Schnee Manor — The Schnee family mansion repurposed as a refugee staging ground — the coldest house in Atlas now shelters the people it was never built to care about
• The Land of Darkness — Salem's domain — the blackened wasteland where Grimm are born, now half-empty because their queen has taken her army to Atlas.

Items

• Crescent Rose — Ruby Rose's weapon — a high-caliber sniper rifle that unfolds into a massive war scythe, custom-built at Signal Academy.
• Crocea Mors — Jaune Arc's weapon — a family heirloom sword reforged with Pyrrha's armor, now a greatsword that carries her memory in every swing.
• Dust — Crystallized natural energy that powers all of Remnant — now a war resource being burned through at unsustainable rates as Atlas fights for survival.
• 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.
• Harbinger — Qrow Branwen's weapon — a greatsword that transforms into a scythe and a shotgun, wielded by a sober, angry man who has scores to settle.
• Magnhild — Nora Valkyrie's weapon — a war hammer that transforms into a grenade launcher, currently wielded by someone too injured to swing it at full power.
• Myrtenaster — Weiss Schnee's weapon — a Multi-Action Dust Rapier with a revolving chamber that loads six types of Dust for elemental versatility.
• Relic of Choice — One of four divine artifacts — a crown sealed in Beacon Academy's vault, inaccessible and waiting beneath the frozen Wyvern.
• Relic of Creation — One of four divine artifacts — a staff with the power to create anything, currently the only thing keeping Atlas from falling out of the sky.
• Relic of Knowledge — One of four divine artifacts — a golden lamp that summons the spirit Jinn, now stolen by Cinder during the chaos of Atlas's fall.
• StormFlower — Lie Ren's weapons — dual automatic pistols with retractable blades for a precise, flowing combat style.

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