My insane theory.

Hi its me sam, and I got a few theories about this rwby grimm crap.


So grimm don't have an aura right? right, they confirmed that or something SO CLEARLY THEY ARE MADE OF MAGIC.

My theory is that magic and aura exist within the rwby world, and that they are two SEPARATE power sources.

Magic in most fantasy stuff is bestowed apon humans by something STRONGER then humans to defend themselves, and they always misuse it.

Perhaps only a small amount of people are able to use it.

So maybe during the ancient times remnant had magic users, until one day some really bad lady named Salem came along and decided to change the game, She killed the magic users using her dark magic bull then proceeded to use her dark magic to make grimm, the infusion of human hate animal bones and black goop. she then used them to take over an entire continent, and due to humans having literally no way of defending themselves they had to flee across the world.

(Take a look at this map and look north west, clearly if you look close that place has volcanic or some sort of "Demonic" looking landscape im willing to bet bad stuff happened there)
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So clearly most of the magic users that survived Salem (oz duh cause clearly he is not an immortal wizard) decided to say "Nah" and found a second power source within humans and unlocked it, they named it "AURA" perhaps this is the reason why humans are special or maybe this was another power that was given from the "Magic thingy"

I also think that magic became weaker due to a lot of people using it at once, so people that use magic are just super op due to no one else using it.

So merlin-cough oz decided to only teach magic or IMPLANT magic into four people aka the maidens, so that they could be super op and shoot elements out of their eyeglass.

I also assume that silver eyed people that had it bestowed apon them from whatever thing that gave it to them i them first place.

my brain has exploded so im not going to type anymore.-lazy sam