The background is completely black.
Oh! Um... Hello! Hi there! My name's Macaria! I'm not that good at speeches and stuff 'cuz I don't talk to people as often as I should. I have to spend an awful, awful lot of time picking up these little pieces of mortals... called 'souls' 'cuz Grandpa told me to, and... the thing is... mortals from all over Remnant die all the time, and I don't get to do other stuff 'til I'm done.
A blue and foggy silhouette with loops in its hair and wings protruding from its back appeared in the black background.
You see, I'm part of a group of beings that came into existence long before you mortals ever did. The very first species to ever exist, actually... You can call me a 'Primordial' if you want to. It means 'one who came before'. Or something like that... Um... I guess you don't really know what I'm saying, so I'll put it in a way that your smaller mortal minds can understand. Your kind could think of me as something like...
The silhouette's eyes quickly open and golden light shines from them.
The Death Maiden! Laaaaaa... All hail my... um... my awesome... uh... awesomeness and... Oh, forget it! Look, I told you I'm not good at speeches, which is kinda ironic since I'm gonna do a lot of talking here. I just finished picking up souls early today, and I'm not sleepy yet 'cuz I was only up for... Lemme think... Twenty-four hours a day, five suns, carry the one... This many hours! Wait... You... can't see my fingers.
The silhouette was replaced by numerous hands (way more than two) hold varying numbers of fingers out.
This many hours! Wait... What am I doing? You don't wanna count all this...
The hands vanished, leaving a black background.
It's a hundred and three. Okay? I was only up for a hundred and three hours so far, and I got a couple of hours before Grandpa scheduled the next mortal's death, so I'm gonna try something that you mortals should already know. It's called...
The word 'RWBY' appeared in large capitalized letters in the black background along with the phrase 'WORLD OF REMNANT' in smaller capitalized letters underneath it.
The World... of... Remnant! Uh... Hey! What's that big word up there? 'Ri-wuh-bee'... What the heck's a 'ri-wuh-bee'? Eh... Whatever. As you mortals already know, this World of Remnant thing is a chance to learn about stuff about this world through a very long and detailed description in a way that doesn't interrupt the stuff that happens in Remnant itself. So right now, I'm gonna tell you about...
The words in the black background vanish and are replaced with the phrase 'ORIGINS' in the center.
The origin of Remnant! Oh wait... It just says 'origins'. Whatever. Same thing! I'm gonna tell you mortals just how Remnant and the mortals and Grimm that still live in it ended up existing in the first place. Okay?
The words in the black background vanish.
Now, in order for me to explain all that, you'll need to hear a little bit about us 'Primordials'. Trust me! It'll explain a lot! Now, I'm gonna start with my Grandpa!
The background changes into a green color and a purple silhouette with a large robe and long white hair appears in it.
He's like... the first of our 'first species' family.
More silhouettes of various colors and shapes appeared with the purple one.
Yep! I have my Grandpa and my mommy and my daddy and my uncles and my aunts and my sister and my cousins. We're all a big, big family, and we all got neat powers to play with!
The other silhouettes vanished leaving the purple one alone, and four glowing circles with symbols appeared with the purple silhouette in their place.
Grandpa says that every 'full-blood' in our family personifies either one or two aspects of one of four different things: knowledge, choice, creation, and destruction. When I say full-blood, I'm talking about the people in our family that weren't born from a mortal or a Grimm or something. Those are called 'half-bloods', and their powers are much different, and usually weaker, than ours. Usually... But, Grandpa is an exception to both of these rules. He personifies all four of these things at once, and sometimes, the babies he makes with mortals are stronger than us, too. So, he's like the strongest of any of our family for like... forever and ever.
The four glowing circles vanished and images of clocks and an unweaving tapestry appeared.
My Grandpa is the personification of Time. His powers come from knowledge, choice, creation, and destruction all at the same time, 'cuz wisdom comes with age, choices are made after having time to think, and all things are born and end up dying over time. Get it? All four of these things come in Time.
More silhouettes of various colors and shapes appeared and kneeled before the purple one.
Now, all the members of my family that was born in the last generation... They call Grandpa 'Father Time' 'cuz he's like their daddy. Some of them, like my daddy, really do have Grandpa as a daddy. You know... 'Cuz he was their daddy when they were born...
The other silhouettes vanished and two smaller silhouettes appeared sitting on the purple silhouette's lap. One was orange, and the other was blue.
This newer generation of our family calls him 'Grandfather Time'. Well... I mean, we're supposed to, but I never call him that. To me, he's just Grandpa. See that little blue person there? That's me, and I love my Grandpa this much! Wait... You... can't see my hands, can you? Sorry! I keep forgetting that you mortals can only see what's in front of you! Hehehe... So sad and limited...
All three silhouettes vanished, leaving an empty green background.
Anyway, now that you know a bit about Grandpa and the rest of my family, I can start to talk about this world: Remnant.
The background turned light blue and a map of Remnant appeared in it.
Once upon a time, a family of Primordial people got bored. Really bored... The thing is, when you're part of a family that can live for thousands and thousands of years, there's one thing that everybody has in common. It's super easy to get bored. Sometimes, when we're bored, we make new worlds, so we can play games in them.
The map in the background was pushed back, so the silhouettes of Primordials surrounding the map could fit in the background. A slender light blue one and a red, four-armed, and muscular one was standing while the rest were sitting.
First, my mommy and my uncle Gigan worked together to make the earthy, watery, and mountainy parts of the game board. That's real important 'cuz you need an environment to put the pieces on.
The background changed to an orange color, while the silhouettes disappeared and were replaced by a white silhouette with a black center and a black silhouette with a white center.
Now, you mortals probably know a little bit about this next part. It's the part about the two brothers. I know that a few mortals in Remnant know about it. I remember this one mortal telling four younger ones a story about the 'gods of light and darkness' over a campfire once. What was his name again? Um... 'Crow... Brownie?' Something like that..? Uh... I'd know for sure if I looked inside his mind, but he's not dead yet, so... Anyway, Mr. Brownie's story was true in a way. It's just that he didn't tell it right. I mean... First of all, there was no feud like he said there was. Secondly, they weren't really 'gods'. Okay... So maybe we're gods in your tiny mortal point of view, but we still have limits and stuff. Even Grandpa...
The two silhouettes crossed their arms in a thinking pose.
Here's what really happened. After Mommy and Uncle Gigan finished making the environment, the two brothers worked together to think what kind of game we'd all play on it. The one you called the 'god of light'... That's my Uncle Lumis. He wanted to make a game with lots of building and resource managing, kinda like Harvest Moon. But Umbra... That's my daddy. He wanted to make a game with limited resources and scavenging to survive, kinda like Fallout. Now, I know that Mr. Brownie was wrong when he said there was a feud, but in his defense, Uncle Lumis and Daddy did bicker an awful lot about it.
A purple silhouette appeared between the white and black ones, which had hostile stances toward each other.
Grandpa didn't let the bickering get too bad, though. He just told Daddy and Uncle Lumis that they could do both at the same time. This new game would have lots of resources and survival at the same time. Uncle Lumis crafted resources like water and Dust for the game, and Daddy was in charge of enemy design. You mortals call these enemies 'the Grimm'. Kind of a clichéd idea of a name if you asked me, but whatever...
The purple silhouette vanished and a light blue silhouette appeared in its place with the black and white ones. Tiny brown silhouettes also appeared on the map of Remnant.
When Daddy and Uncle Lumis were finished making their stuff, Grandpa gave them the 'okay'. Then, he told Mommy to help them make the most important pieces of the game: the mortal races. Mommy made the physical bodies of each mortal, and then gave them little pieces of her powers of knowledge and choice. Then, Uncle Lumis gave them pieces of his power of creation and Daddy gave them pieces of his power of destruction. Since each mortal was made up of all these different pieces, there was no way to really tell what they would all do. That was what we wanted 'cuz the mortals would be too boring if they were one-dimensional and predictable. Grandpa gave it the 'okay', and that's how we got the NPCs for our game!
All of the silhouettes and the map disappeared, and was replaced by a single brown silhouette holding four glowing circles.
After the NPCs were all done, Grandpa took a big piece of his power and split it into their four separate... uh, things: knowledge, choice, creation, and destruction. He made each of them into what you mortals call 'Relics'. They're supposed to augment a mortal's aspect of whatever part of them that the Relic is based on. So like, the Knowledge Relic makes mortals super smart, for example. These Relics were made in a way so that a mortal could become as powerful as one of us if they collected all four. It's so fun to watch mortals have all these different ideas with what to do with these Relics! You know? Grandpa doesn't like them being called Relics. He likes to call them 'mah-guh-fins'.
All of the silhouettes disappeared and was replaced by a basket of muffins.
No! I said 'mah-guh-fins', not muffins! Uh... Well, maybe I'll just have one.
A hand came from the right side of the background and grabbed one of the muffins.
Mmm! Bwoo-beh-wee! Eh-nee-wah, Gwah-pah... Mmm... Hag-ah... Sorry.
The basket of muffins disappeared and was replaced by a purple silhouette dramatically stretching its fingers toward the tiny brown silhouettes.
Anyway, Grandpa set up the potential final destinies of every mortal on Remnant, so they would only be able to die and leave the game is at one of these very specific moments. If a mortal's HP hits zero before one of these final destiny points for some reason, they would end up surviving anyway 'cuz they're flagged as 'essential NPCs'. I think you mortals would call this a miracle or a 'Day-oos Ex Mah-kee-nah', but it's really just 'cuz Grandpa didn't give that mortal's death the 'okay'. When I say 'potential final destinies', I really mean just that. 'Potential' means 'it might happen', not 'it will happen', 'cuz mortals can choose how they live in this game, so every once in a while, there are a few crafty mortals that can do things to get around the destinies that they don't want. It's all part of the game.
The silhouettes disappeared and was replaced by a map of Remnant.
In case you were wondering... Even though Remnant was the newest world we made, we didn't actually give the world that name. The name 'Remnant' came from mortals from an earlier generation than yours, who considered the world that they lived in as a remnant of the great civilization that existed since the generation before them. When Grandpa heard the name for the first time, he was kinda like 'Sure, why not?'.
The map disappeared, leaving only an orange background.
Anyway... After Mommy, Daddy, and Uncle Lumis made all the NPCs, my sister... Wait... You can't actually see her 'cuz the background's the same color. Hang on a sec...
The orange background turned blue, so the orange silhouette is now visible. It had vines around its arms and chest and flowers in its hair.
That's better! Anyway, my sister takes some souls out of our toy box and gives each of them specific personalities and powers, so they would all be different in their own ways. Then, she puts one inside each and every mortal just before their born. Oh, my sister's name is Cybele, just so you know. I think you mortals call these powers 'Semblances' or something. I'd introduce you to her if I could, but she's not here right now, 'cuz she's busy trying to invent new Semblances for some mortals that are gonna be born soon. We're kinda like opposite counterparts to each other, so you mortals might think of her as the 'Life Maiden'. She's usually as busy with mortals as I am, so we don't have much time to play together. That's... one of the things that aren't so fun about this game.
The orange silhouette vanished, leaving only a blue background.
And now, I saved me for la... Ugh... Hang on.
The blue background turned orange again, so the blue silhouette from the beginning is now visible.
I gotta start having these backgrounds set up in advance later. Anyway, you mortals might call the 'Death Maiden', so my job is to pick up the little soul pieces that are left behind after each mortal dies, and put them back in our toy box, so that Cybele can use it again when a new mortal is gonna be born. I think you mortals call this 'reincarnation' or something. The point of doing this is so we never completely run out of pieces to play with.
The blue background turned dark green, and the orange silhouette appeared alongside the blue one.
Oh, I almost forgot! You're probably wondering why me and Cybele would be called 'Maidens'.
Four silhouettes appeared below the orange and blue one. They were light green, light orange, purple, and white.
I guess you think that we might be related to the four Seasonal Maidens or something. Well, we're not related at all. To mortals, a Maiden is just someone that doesn't need Dust to use their powers. Since we don't need Dust, you might think of us as Maidens just 'cuz you wanna name us kinda like something you already know. The power of the four Seasonal Maidens originally came from a mortal Wizard, but I guess you already know that. The Seasonal Maiden powers were designed to be compact and could move from one mortal to another. We're nothing like them!
The blue silhouette pulled out a scythe and sliced the heads of all four of the 'Seasonal' silhouettes off in a single stroke.
Cybele's power of life comes from knowledge, which comes from Mommy, and creation, which comes from Uncle Lumis. My power of death comes from choice, which comes from Mommy, and destruction, which comes from Daddy.
The four 'Seasonal' silhouettes disappeared and was replaced by the white, black, and light blue silhouettes, which appeared above the orange and blue ones.
Oh, uh... Yea... Me and Cybele have two different daddies. Umbra is my daddy, and Uncle Lumis is her daddy. I guess you mortals think it's weird for Mommy to have two daddies instead of just one, but it really isn't that big of a deal. You see, that whole 'you can only love one person' thing was something you mortals invented, so we don't really think the same way about it that you do.
All of the silhouettes vanished and were replaced by the purple one and the tiny brown ones underneath him.
In fact, Grandpa loves more people than anyone I know! He especially loves mortals. He made lots of babies with mortals, and I got some half-blood uncles and aunts that still live in Remnant today.
The tiny brown silhouettes vanished and was replaced by a duck and an egg.
He even made a baby with a duck once... but I don't wanna talk about Uncle Quack. He... ate one of my cousins once... with a fork. Yea... He's crazy.
The silhouettes vanished and the background changed to black again.
Well, that's the story of how Remnant came to be what it is! If I have more free time later, then maybe I'll do this World of Remnant thing again. I got lots more stuff to tell. Maybe I'll tell you about how the mortals in Atlas invented that 'Aura transferring thingy' from when they tried to put a piece of the Fall Maiden into someone else... Oooh! Or maybe I'll tell you about where the Silver-Eyed Warrior's powers really came from... I dunno. I'll see what I feel like later. Anyway, that was today's World of Remnant! Did I do good at it?
A silhouette that resembles Qrow Branwen appeared in the background.
Yea, I guess Mr. Brownie's way better at it.
A quiet and unintelligible voice could be heard in the background.
Wait... Branwen? His name's Branwen? I've been calling him Mr. Brownie! Why didn't you tell me earlier? I look like an idiot right now!
The silhouette of Qrow disappeared while that quiet and unintelligible voice could be heard in the background again.
Eh... Yea, brownies sound nice. I did just have a muffin, though... Oooh! Hey, do we got cookies?
A plate of cookies appeared in the background.