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So... Saviour is one of the most overpowered abilities that exists in Final Rose. So what does it actually do?

At the core of Saviour’s identity is an idea:

An inviolate domain over which the bearer has absolute control, rejecting all outside influences as corruption and exerting the bearer’s will as the truth.

Saviour is an answer to the question:

How does one conquer a hostile world that seeks to bring ruin to the bearer and destroy all they love and hope to accomplish?

Saviour is thus a collection of powers that together seek to exert the bearer’s truth upon Creation while rejecting competing truth’s and creating an inviolate domain that they alone can command.

This leads to the most notable of Saviour’s abilities:

The Eyes that See the Truth. Saviour is impervious to mind control and illusions as a simple consequence of seeing Creation in a completely veridical manner. As a result of seeing Creation in its true state, Saviour is also able to perceive alternate timelines and dimensions as well as higher and lower dimensions. This ability is what allows Saviour to predict opponents and optimise objectives.

The Unbounded Forge. Saviour exerts its own truth, making what the bearer desires real. This is the ability from which Creation of All Things derives. The Unbounded Forge allows for the creation of materials, constructs, and energies that would otherwise be impossible or that defy conventional rules of existence. Do you want a sword that can cut through anything? This is how you get one. Do you want to shoot homing energy beams of absolute bullshit? Here you go.

The Words that Bind Creation. Saviour can rewrite the laws of Creation, altering, eliminating, or adding to the fundamental rules that govern existence. This effect can be controlled precisely creating ‘nope’ fields that prevent other powers from working or rendering Saviour invulnerable to various forms of attack. This ability is what allows Saviour to warp space and time or even to erase higher-dimensional entities and the like. Want to make it that chemical reactions just don’t do anything to you? Yeah. You got it.

The Unconquered, Inviolate Kingdom. Saviour’s area of influence is determined by this ability. At minimum, it will always cover the bearer of Saviour, granting them the familiar levels of physical enhancement, durability, predictive power, and so on. Yet it can also be expanded, growing larger and and deeper as the bearer progresses through the levels of Saviour. Think of this as Saviour designating its surroundings as part of the ‘territory’ over which it has absolute command. Even in its resting state, it will passively reject threats to the bearer and is responsible for ramping up in response to danger, calling up the other three abilities.

Here are the eventual heights for members of the three Farron families (Yun-Farron, Villiers, and Dia-Farron). Note that they are taller than their canon counterparts because everybody in RWBY seems to be fairly tall, so I decided to adjust them upward (e.g., Yang in her first year at Beacon being taller than Lightning felt really weird).

Yun-Farron

Lightning - 5′ 10″

Fang - 6′ 0″

Averia - 5′ 10″

Diana - 6′ 0″

Taren - 6′ 3″

Villiers

Snow - 6′ 10″

Serah - 5′ 7″

Claire - 6′ 4″

Ice - 6′ 10″

Alyssa - 6′ 2″

Dia-Farron

Vanille - 5′ 6″

Lumina - 5′ 7″

Raine - 5′ 6″

Petra - 5′ 7″

Natalie - 5′ 7″

Fraise - 5′ 5″

One of the problems I’ve been having lately is keeping track of how old people are relative to each other. This is mainly because Ordinary Heroes was the story that introduced Diana, Claire, and Averia. Those three again feature in Final Rose, and their ages are the same there. However, and this is the bit that gets aggravating, in Ordinary Heroes, Vanille marries Hope, and they end up having kids a bit later. In Final Rose, Vanille marries Lumina and they have kids earlier.

To make things simpler for me (and for you), here is a rough timeline of when everybody was born.

We can use Averia as the standard since she has the earliest birthday (in the year) of any of the characters. We will use the year in which Teams RWBY, JNPR, and ACEJ begin at Beacon Senior Academy as the reference point. The ages of the canon characters are the same as they would be in canon.

Yun-Farrons

Averia is 17

Diana is 14

Taren is 6

Villiers

Claire is 17

Ice is 6

Alyssa is 6

Dia-Farrons

Raine is 11

Petra and Natalie are 8

Fraise is 6

Naabats

Jahne is 17

Leblance is 11

These are the characters whose ages I am fairly confident of (and from here on, these are the ages I will be using if there are conflicts). However, the “good version” of Final Rose in which Summer survives introduces even more children to keep track of because Ruby and Yang now have other siblings, and Qrow has kids of his own. I will update when I work out what to do with the (likewise, when I work out what to do with Hope’s children).

Due to the repeated destruction of civilisation due to the various Calamities, languages on Remnant come from a number of distinct linguistic families, most of which can be traced to the world-spanning civilisations that existed prior to each Calamity.

The oldest known linguistic families can be traced back to Cocoon and the World Below, both of which reached their civilisational peak just prior to the First Calamity. Cocoon’s language heavily influenced many subsequent languages due to the survivors of Cocoon spreading across the world. As a result, roughly 15% of Remnant Standard (the language spoken across the world during Final Rose as a lingua franca ) can be traced back to Cocoon’s language.

In contrast, the language of the World Below is the ancestral tongue from which all of the Clan languages except Dia derive. Dia is the exception due to the fact that the Dia Clan cannot trace its roots back to the World Below. Instead, it was created by the amalgamation of various disparate groups joining a migration to Oerba. As a result Ancient Dia is the single most complex language on Remnant.

The dialects used in the Four Great Kingdoms are a combination of Cocoon’s language and various other languages from civilisations that existed after it and then were subsequently wiped out. It is notable that many coastal regions have dialects that bear links to the language used by the Water Tribes in the present day. This is because these coastal areas were once part of the Elemental Empire, which was destroyed in a Calamity. The Water Tribes fled the Calamity but ended up in different places, which is why there are pockets of Water Tribe near the Clans, on Mantle, and so on.

Note that the Cetra learned the local languages when they arrived and only used their own language internally. As a result, Cetra had almost no influence on the languages of Remnant other than the introduction of certain words that the locals had no equivalent for at the time. Interestingly enough, the words for Aura and Semblance originate from Cetra due to the immense influence that the Cetra had in teaching the locals about Aura and Semblance.

Another interesting point is that the language used by the people who fled to Remnant via a gateway that was part of Kingdom Hearts (an ancient portal network created by a galaxy-spanning civilisation that existed before even the Cetra) also had almost no influence on Remnant’s later languages. The reasons for this are somewhat more tragic than the Cetra.

Almost everyone who made it through the gateway was a child. The people of Kingdom Hearts fought a bloody, brutal battle against the Grimm, especially once the Grimm compromised their portal network and overwhelmed their civilisation. They prioritised the evacuation of their children while the adults covered their retreat.

The gateway on Remnant was originally supposed to be on land. However, when it was deployed, it crashed into the ocean and was abandoned. When Kingdom Hearts fell, its people lost the space battle and then fled through the portal network to try to escape. Once the Grimm compromised the network, they were hunted down and wiped out.

In desperation, some of them were able to reactivate the portal on Remnant. However, since it was at the bottom of the ocean and barely functional, getting the children through and then protecting them to let them reach the surface came at a grave cost. The elderly, the adults, and even the teenagers all perished protecting the very youngest children and destroying the gateway behind them.

These children were later found by locals who adopted them and raised them as their own. As a result, the children ended up just using the languages of the people who found them.

Incidentally, the downfall of Kingdom Hearts is why the Hyperspace Gateway Network of Final Effect is specifically designed so that access to it can be strictly controlled and even shut down to prevent it being used against its creators. The Dia-Farron are students of history, and they’re not keen on having any repeats of what happened.

As an aside, the Remnant Standard is has a phonographic alphabet with each letter being associated with a sound (similar to English). There are a total of 80 phonemes in Remnant Standard, with each phoneme referring to a particular sound. For reference, English has 44. The Clan languages are logographic with each character representing a word or idea.

For those of you who want to melt your brains, learn Ancient Dia. It has more than 1000 phonemes, which makes it basically impossible to actually speak. It also features a complex, multi-referential, collapsible logographic system that allows for increasingly complex characters to the point that Vanille has trolled people by releasing important documents as a single, hyper-complex character before releasing them again in more intelligible terms.

This is why the Dia Clan are all multi linguistics. In comparison to their own language (all Dia are taught Ancient Dia alongside Modern Dia), every other language seems easy by comparison. It’s also why so many Dia are envious of Vanille. She found a spouse who achieved fluency in reading and writing Ancient Dia despite only learning it from her teens on. That was widely considered impossible without the use of Semblance hacks (e.g., Saviour).

As an aside, most people on Remnant can speak more than one language, but just about everybody knows Remnant Standard. In fact, people would be more surprised to meet someone who only speaks a single language.