Greywing44: Ahhh. Ahhh. How did I see that Nodoka scene coming? Ah that was great. A nice throw back to the series. I mean the whole nervous around boys thing was never really explored that much, even in the manga. So hopefully we can have some kind of scene where Vincent completely misinterprets her feelings and then has her go on this weird quest to cure her of her phobia of men.
And I'm ashamed! Ashamed that there was never a question if the arm had a vibrating function! Shame!

Vincent: Well that's dumb. Why would my arm have a vibrating function if there's no phone?

Caboose: Yes. People can be really dumb sometimes.

NeoNazo356: Oh god, it's spreading. Reinforcing Fourth-Wall Buffers!

Blaze1992: Okay that was weird

NeoNazo356: Better "weird" than "boring". Which the last two Volumes of RWBY have admittedly been a bit of. I mean, sure, the fight against Adam at the end of Volume 7 was pretty good, but that was because it was Monty's old work. Everything else dragged and between info dumps I was bored to tears.

*WORLD OF REMNANT*

As long as man has had material possessions, there has been a need to secure them; to lock them away from the greedy eyes and hands of others. Some would keep their valuables on their person, some would hide them in their homes, some would bury them in the ground, and some would even trust something as flimsy as "self-restraint" to protect their valuables from others.

However, the greatest secret-keeper of all, at least in recent years, have been the Vaults scattered across Remnant.

In no way am I referring to something as mundane as the ones you'd put in a wall behind a painting, or set into the floor. I instead refer to the ancient "tombs of steel and iron", scattered across the known world.

Hence why this type of Vault is in the proper tense with a capital-V.

In essence, Vaults in the proper tense are massive underground "dungeons" or "labyrinths" built of steel, iron, glass, and plastic, containing relics of the past in varying degrees of preservation from perfectly-pristine to completely decayed. Some contained artwork, weapons, food, machinery, but some even contained people.

Mind you, most of those discovered in Vaults were dead people. A certain eccentric doctor even postulated that the verse "man, born from dust" might not be meant to be taken literally as man being "spontaneously borne from the earth", but as a metaphor for ancient man instead of rising from the earth, that they rose instead out of the Vaults they were once held within.

The prevailing consensus about the Vaults is that, if anything, they are merely the remnant of an ancient "super civilization" predating Remnant's recorded history, though religious factions heavily refute claims that modern Humans (and by extension Faunus) are truly the descendants of any sort of Precursor, Lemurian, Onvitaikayan, etc.

Though wars of science and religion have clashed ever since the first of the Vaults were unearthed from their subterranean tombs, undeniable evidence linking the ancient past to the present lies in Eldscript, and its rather uncanny resemblance to modern-day languages. While some forms of Eldscript are completely indecipherable, the fact that others resemble and translate-into modern language perfectly gives credence to theories of man being born from Vaults, though religious figures have attempted to suppress this information as much as they have been able.

However, it is not always the historical value of undisturbed Eldscript that compels "Vault Hunters" to hazard the dangers of the frontier. More than anything, it is the prospect of uncovering a cashe of Eldcraft that draws the academically virtuous, and the materialistically avaritic, to pursue the Vaults.

Eldcraft in its simplest terms are anachronisms. Samples of technology and wonders of science that completely eclipse those possessed by the modern world. Any form of Eldcraft discovered intact is enough to set a man for life, though the temptations of greed and the claws of avarice have caused many an adventurer to turn on their fellows, often leaving Eldcraft undisturbed in the end, albeit exposed to the elements once the Vault's doors have been breached.

Throughout the ages, Eldcraft revealed such wonders as advancements in chemistry, botany, agriculture, metallurgy, mathematics, and other sciences that greatly advanced the understanding of whatever civilizations could uncover them. However, it was the material, or rather, the weaponized treasures of the ancient world, that became the most sought-after.

And were often the most self-destructive.

In ancient Mistral, a certain country utilized "Steel Golems" as weapons of war, laying waste to all in their wake. All hope of resisting these massive automata seemed lost. However, when that certain country began tampering with forces beyond their understanding, the "Abh-kamu" as they came to be known through their conquest, turned on their former masters, doing unto them what they'd ordered done unto others, until eventually, the Abh-kamu grew silent, and were henceforth sealed away evermore.

These "Steel Golems", now inert have, after deciphering the Eldscript surrounding them, been re-classified as the "Abel Heavy Industries Kamul Type-3 Protective Exoskeleton". Due to their hearty construction, it was speculated that the Kamul Type-3s were utilized in only the most extreme of conditions, to carry out tasks that would prove impossible if not outright fatal to the unfortified.

Whatever these conditions were that warranted creations so powerful and so stalwart, yet being mass-produced in such a way, has been lost to time despite historians' best efforts.

Because of the danger that Eldcraft could wreak in unchecked hands, it was thusly declared by international law that all Vaults and their contents wherewithal, upon discovery, were to be formally divulged so that all nations may benefit from this ancient wisdom.

However, by equal measure, it became no small secret that whenever they could, any country or organization that could conceal its ownership of Eldcraft would in turn use it to advance their own sciences; so as to gain the advantage over other nations. Allegedly, Atlas' military might can be contributed heavily to monopolized Eldcraft, though without sufficient evidence, no formal inquiries to the nature of these claims can be made, and thus such theories have become the realm of conspiracy and pure conjecture.

It thus goes without saying that the contents of the Vaults scattered across Remnant can both be amazing and terrifying windows into the kind of world that might have existed in the ancient past.

Just what untold wonders and horrors await those that would discover them?

What effect will the Eldscript and Eldcraft of the ancient world have on the future?

Peace? War? Heaven? Hell? As it ever is, the future on the distant horizon remains clouded, and uncertain.

But that, is a story for another day.

*NEW WORLD*

AN:
The Fanon that I imply with this "World of Remnant" special was conceived well prior to RWBY Volume 6, Episode 3: The Lost Fable. While the fable of Salem and Ozma will not be 1:1 in Giant-Slayer, I have no intention of discarding this storied past of theirs, though my Beta had already speculated that Ozpin and Salem had a warped "Link & Zelda"-like relationship well before "The Lost Fable" hit the net.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and look forward to hearing from you soon.