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This Page will act a location for current or new readers to catch up on the series so far in case they want to be at the start. (If you would like to read the series from the start and experience the series with no spoilers then I would recommend avoiding this page. Any feedback on the series is appreciated, and all the support I have received means everything to me.)
This page will summarise all the important points of each Act, so you can catch up on everything you may have missed or forgotten:



The Knights of Grimm - Act 1 - An Eye For An Eye
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12814700/1/The-Knights-of-Grimm-Act-1-An-Eye-For-An-Eye




• The story takes place directly after Volume 4, after the death of the Nuckelavee

• Ruby wakes up after a horrific nightmare of a place called the Charred Forest, seeing Pyrrha, Roman and hearing the Nuckelavee

• Team RWBY begin their journey to Mistral, Weiss gets attacked by Mercenaries whilst Ruby meets with Professor Lionheart with Team RNJR and Qrow, Blake fights in her rebellion against the White Fang and Yang continues her journey

• Yang meets with a merchant at her campfire and then the next day reunites with an old friend and old love of hers she had (a childhood crush in fact) named Kassius



• Locke in a motel, battling against bandits and catching up after all that lost time

• Weiss finds Neptune and begins their romantic relationship as he protects her from the Mercenaries and gets her to a safehouse owned by the rest of Team S.S.S.N


• Sun reveals that his parents were killed by Hazel Rainart

• RNJR meet with Lionheart and find their place


• Blake in Menagerie captures the White Fang Lieutenant, but that night Ilia warns them an attack is coming, and the first of the four Knights of Grimm attack the Colony. The Knight of Fury specifically is the first to be revealed, and he kills Ghira and Kali Belladonna, Sun and Blake escape on the ship they arrived on, heading to Mistral...broken from the heavy loss.

• Yang and Kassius continue their journey to Mistral and they arrive there, searching for Ruby after hearing about RNJR killing the Legendary Nuckelavee


• Oscar arrives at Mistral and meets RNJR and Qrow, and reveals that Ozpin has mysteriously paired his soul with his own, after explaining the situation he states they must secure the Relic of Creation (Unlike Canon for reasons)

• Jaune displays his anger towards Ozpin for what happened to Pyrrha, and this follows throughout the series with his distrust in him


• Ruby, Weiss and Yang reunite together in a touching moment

• Weiss states she needs their help to change her identity to find her sister, since she found out Winter was spotted and looked injured, hurt by the Mercenary Company called the Acolytes of Lien – led by Admiral Darren Ortega


• Jacques reveals himself as a major antagonist, preventing Weiss from changing her identity and sending more Mercenaries after his daughters – either dead or alive

• Jaune meets Pyrrha’s mother

• Blake and Sun arrive at Mistral


• Kassius reveals his team were killed by an assassin known as the Onyx Phantom and that he saw one of the other Knights of Grimm – Death

• He tells them the Fable of the Four Knights, a story he read in the library once at Haven, about four Knights turned into monsters by the Brother of Darkness (Unaware this was Vir Nominis Umbra at the time and that the stories changed him into a God)


• Death, Fear, Loss and Fury – the Knights of Grimm

• Team RWBY fully reunite now that Blake is here, after some tension between Yang, Blake and Sun is shown from the problems that they have


• They share stories happily with each other

• Cinder shows signs of redemption and is punished for lying about the death of Ozpin, being humiliated by Salem and branded with Fury’s burning hand


• Salem turns Cinder into her warrior, giving her another chance as the Onyx Phantom reveals itself to be fighting for Salem as well

• Adam finds what remains of Menagerie and sees the destruction, officially turning against Salem for the deaths of all those Faunus


• They begin the search for Winter, chasing down Henry Marigold that Weiss met at Atlas, an informant, and they capture him, but during interrogation he is assassinated by the Onyx Phantom

• S.S.S.N find Winter injured


• They help her recover but Team R.W.B.Y are attacked by Tyrian Callows and Cinder’s crew – and Death attacks their car in Nevermore form, carrying them to an abandoned Merlot Industries Facility, dropping them in

• Ruby meets Cinder again


• When Cinder tries to kill Ruby the rest of the heroes arrive and save her, battling against the villains

• As they escape Death comes out of nowhere and crashes their car, breaking Ruby’s aura against a tree


• Yang fights Team W.T.C.H herself and with her team’s help they manage to beat them in combat until Death attacks, nearly killing them

• Raven and Qrow save them, fighting Death and being saved by a ghost of Summer Rose


• Merlot enters the series as one of the men working with Jacques Schnee and Darren Ortega

• Salem begins her plan, Watts begins a huge Riot in Mistral with the rage from Fury helping him, starting to attract Grimm to the city like at Beacon


• Lionheart betrays them and kills Sage in the process, and the entire team of A.B.R.N is wiped out by the Knights of Grimm as they attack the school, killing the unprepared students in droves

• Leo destroys the walls that surrounds Mistral and Qrow attacks him, trying to stop him as the Grimm invade


• It is revealed that Qrow is Ruby’s father (I liked the idea, I know it isn’t canon though) when Fear sends nightmares into his mind of when Summer died due to his Bad Luck Charm

• The Battle of Mistral Begins


• Scarlet David dies by Death’s hand in the process

• Adam helps them fight and destroy Fury’s form (not killing him though)


• Jaune manages to destroy Loss in one swing with Crocea Mors

• Weiss gets stabbed through the stomach by Death and nearly dies in the process


• Neptune gets his legs broken in the battle from Death’s Fatal Feathers

• Oscar gets captured by Fear


• Ruby loses her eye by Death as he fires an arrow at them, and Jaune carries her away as Mistral falls around them

• Jaune lures the Knights and the Grimm away from Ruby and Yang finds her


• Yang snaps when seeing her sister missing an eye, decimating some Acolytes of Lien Mercenaries

• Death and Tyrian both capture Ruby and takes her to Salem


• Raven saves the heroes with her Bandit Tribe and takes them in

• Lionheart is killed by Death by Salem’s order after she promised him survival, lying after his usefulness was used up


• A dark entity states that this is the beginning of the end to Death, revealing there is a higher force

• Named Vir Nominis Umbra



The Knights of Grimm – Act 2 – Captured
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12444391/1/The-Knights-of-Grimm-Act-2-Captured




• Begins with a flashback that shows Ilia having to sell Kassius’ team out to the Onyx Phantom and Fear, revealing a plot to use Kassius’ mysterious semblance

• The Spectre is introduced, leading a team of Acolytes of Lien as they hunt down at kill Neon and Flynt


• Ruby is captured with a bandage over her missing eye, in the custody of Tyrian Callows – beginning her agonising suffering by his hand that will change her forever

• The survivors from Mistral are being protected by Raven’s Tribe who have set up a base in an Arkhoni Ruin inside of a mountain


• Arkhoni and Arkhonex are the ancient civilisation that came before

• They learn that they need to find someone called The Architect in the Deserts of Mistral (yes there is a desert in Mistral, I didn’t get that confused)


• When they arrive, they fight against a bunch of Giant Deathstalkers, revealing Kassius’ Swords (Lash Equinox) can be connected together and extend into a double ended javelin

• They meet the Architect for the first time, a Robot with an Arkhoni A.I designated with the planning of constructing entire cities and buildings


• He has become something far more impressive, learning how to fight and survive

• The Spectre attacks them as they try and follow the Architect and he holds them hostage, threatening to kill Nora in front of Ren and everyone


• Jaune reveals he survived, and he cuts the Spectre’s arm off in one swing, saving them

• The Onyx Phantom appears and fights Jaune as they fight the Mercenaries


• They return back to the safehouse to find a message is waiting for them, a recording from Tyrian as he tortures Ruby, demanding they bring Ozpin to them, unaware that he is actually in Oscar’s head and they already have him, meaning all that torture is for nothing

• Kassius’ semblance is revealed when Adam is shown being saved by Raven’s Bandits, and seeing the man who cut his girlfriend’s arm off makes him go berserk, the semblance is revealed as an entity called Mr Hyde that lives in his head, attacking Adam and breaking his horns, nearly killing Ilia too if not for Yang knocking him out


• Adam’s backstory is revealed, and that he is actually blind due to getting his eyes scorched by a previous Onyx Phantom, showing how the start of his initial downfall began…but also the start of a potential redemption

• Yang meets Hyde for the first time, frightening her to see Kassius acting so creepily


• Oscar’s semblance is revealed, that he can manipulate Time, and that only Death can actually move despite time being manipulated

• They meet Kragen Nox for the first time, the Architect’s master and an old Silver Eyed Warrior in a Keep where he has been rescuing those with Silver Eyes to keep them alive from Salem


• He takes them through Dragonspire Keep and he explains everything, the past of Arkhonex and what happened to them all, the fact there was a 5th Knight of Grimm called Vengeance, but they freed him from his curse

• He also states that Salem was once a Silver Eyed Warrior and that only a Nikos can kill her, due to the curse she is bound to


• And Pyrrha was the last that could stand against her, and she is dead

• After Jacques took over Atlas’ Military, he had Ironwood arrested


• Kragen tells them that there is an Arkhoni Book hidden in the Emerald Forest, the same place where they met each other, and that the Book is called a Visionary Book with the memories of a forgotten past inside

• They head there, and they look into the past


• The Visionary Book shows Axzura Vex, a pirate Captain and the same man that would become the Knight of Fury leading an attack

• It also shows Krekras Blackridge, who would become the Knight of Death fighting as a Vanguard, the first kind of Huntsman


• The memory collapses and as they leave the chamber, they meet the Knight of Fear, Cinder, Hazel, Emerald and Mercury outside

• Fear reveals that Qrow is Ruby’s father to them all, to Yang as well, forming distrust from Yang towards Qrow


• Fear suddenly attacks them with the Fear Toxin, sending nightmares into everyone, showing them their worst fears

• Shows Neptune’s fear of water revealed, as he lost his parents when a dam was destroyed, and they drowned in the water as a bridge collapsed, and he watched them die


• Kassius faces against the demon in his head, Blake sees her parents and they all suffer in different ways

• Kassius reveals that Cinder’s real name is actually Sapphire


• He also reveals that they are twins, he is older than her by only a few minutes and that something tore them apart

• Not only this but Loss’ real name is Starla Schnee, and that she is in fact an ancient ancestor of Weiss’


• Cinder lowers her weapon after realising her brother is alive, and when she stands there, Yang mistakes her standing there to be to attack her boyfriend, so she tries to help him, scaring Cinder

• She fires an arrow at Kassius by accident and the eye blast erupts beneath him, the fire burning the side of his face and throwing him off the cliff


• Yang helps him and the Onyx Phantom attacks, smashing Nora’s face into the ground over and over again, nearly killing her, but they force the Phantom to retreat

• Cinder disappears

• Kassius and Nora are both taken to recover back at the Safehouse and Kassius tells his side of the story, that they were raised on Vytal and were attacked by the Grimm


• Kassius was nearly eaten alive by a Terror Bird Grimm as a child and Cinder had thought he died when she was forced to run, by his order

• Taiyang saved Kassius before it was too late and helped him recover, raised with Yang and they formed a close bond


• Cinder’s real name is Sapphire Locke

• Ruby challenges Death to a game of chess for their freedom and Mercury joins in, and she wins, meaning Mercury will die for losing at some point


• But she never made the date of being free clear, meaning that they are not going anywhere any time soon

• President Thaddeus Brimstone and Willow Schnee are revealed (Weiss’ Mother)
• Kragen tells the fable of the Squires of Light

• The next step to Kragen’s plan begins, as they have learned of an Ancient Library from Arkhonex out in Vacuo where another Visionary Book is waiting


• Weiss and Neptune begin their own personal mission to find Neptune’s Mother’s Medallion in the flooded town where his parents died

• Kassius learns of a way to find and get revenge on Ilia, so Yang helps him…but she does not want him to let his revenge take over his life


• Kragen’s past is explored, revealing he was the Old Wizard that created the Four Maidens and that one of them fell in love with him – the Spring Maiden, and that after the first transition of the power the Immortality is lost

• But Yenna never died


• On their mission, Weiss and Neptune fight Watts and some Mercenaries sent to kill them

• Kassius’ contact is revealed to be Blackjack, a man who has information on those attempting to change their identity, and he is revealed to be Junior


• After a tense exchange, and after Kassius nearly sawed his head in half, he sets up a meeting

• Despite what she did she explains she had no choice and has nightmares of them every day, and Yang convinces Kassius that he does not need to kill her, because she is punished for her decision every day


• During a battle in the Library, Fear summons the Lord of the Wood to fight – the Higher Demon that causes Nora to lose her family and find Ren at Kuroyuri

• Fear realises that Oscar and Ruby are making an escape, one that Hazel helps make a success for Oscar but Fear lures Ruby away


• Ruby burns Tyrian’s eye out with a brand with the Salem Eye

• Death kills Mercury when he and Emerald attempt to help them, and Emerald escapes


• Ruby sees Fear and she tries to get out, only for her to suddenly see Roman Torchwick

• She falls unconscious and Torchwick is revealed to be trapped in Ruby’s head now, or at least a hallucination of him


• Hazel sent Oscar through a portal that threw him to Kassius and Yang

• Kragen tries to get to the Visionary Book, only for the Entity of Time to stop him by burning it to ash as he freezes time, scaring the man


• The same entity approaches Oscar and tells him he is the Last Traveller

• He sends Oscar through time and shows him the first meeting of Team RWBY and then sends him to Arkhonex, where he meets the Knights of Grimm apart from Fury one by one, and then meets a young woman called Cynthia Nikos


• He also meets Vir Nominis Umbra for the first time, unaware he is the real monster

• He gives him a choice, to either help Cynthia by sleeping with her (She mistakes him for her knight in shining armour) or to give her a potion that would make her believe it to be true, but he never did


• He loves Ruby, not her, and he is loyal, so he tricks her and gets on the Dauntless – a man named Wymerus Ozymandias’ is the captain of the ship

• As they set off, speaking with Vir Nominis Umbra here and there on the journey, but then a storm hits as they approach the mysterious Volcanic Chain Isles, throwing him out and sending him back through time to the present


• Yang and Kassius get attacked after they decided to take a drive together when they got Oscar to safety

• The Spectre and the Onyx Phantom attack them, nearly killing Yang in the process until Summer Rose returns, cutting his other arm off


• Jaune arrives just in time with help, battling against the Onyx Phantom and he finally reveals the Phantom’s face

• As Pyrrha Nikos


• She escapes, and it is shown that she was brought back to life with the Relic of Creation after they acquired it at Mistral, brainwashing her with the idea of the Onyx Phantom

• Roman’s past is revealed, and it is shown that Vir Nominis Umbra is more than they realise, as he is the reason, he became more powerful and Neo lost her voice, by a poison he gave her as a cost for that power


• Vir Nominis Umbra is definitely not human to survive all these years

• Neo is also revealed to be the previous Onyx Phantom before Pyrrha was brought back, and she was the one that Jaune injured back when they first met the Architect, since he stabbed a hook through her shoulder


• They all return back to the safe house, plotting their next move now they know that they are taking Ruby to the Volcanic Chain Isles to find the Relic of Choice

• But going there with the amount of forces against them is a suicide mission, but they are ready


• They learn of an Atlesian Submarine called the Tethys they can use to go under the storm

• Thaddeus and the Atlesian Military also agree to fight with them, but they must get the barrier down


• Qrow also speaks with Vir Nominis Umbra, knowing they must start their mission now

• The team head out to find the Tethys, and Jaune goes to see the grave of his eldest sister – Skyler Arc – who was killed, and they buried her by a lake


• Sun approaches and says that he may have to fight Pyrrha, but he also says that he is ready for whatever he has to do

• And she will remember him


• They get to the Tethys and begin the mission

• After crossing the Cruel Sea that arrive at the constant stormy islands


• They battle against the monsters here and they find the Storm Barrier Tower, and they go to shut it down

• On the way there, Yang and Kassius are saved from an unexpected old friend


• Penny Polendina

• It is revealed that she was rebuilt and was sent in but for some reason she is exactly the same…leaving the question in their minds of why Merlot did not reset her memory


• Her memory is also quite damaged too, a certain drive is missing from her memory core

• Pyrrha and Jaune battle on top of the tower, and at the end she remembers, and she saves him as he falls to what would have been his death


• She pulls him from the water and walks away, beginning her arc in the next act

• The Storm Barrier is deactivated, and they ambush the Knights of Grimm in a lethal attack


• The Atlesians roll in but they are not alone, as Zwei suddenly is launched into Fear’s face, revealing Oobleck, Port, Taiyang, Glynda and Team C.F.V.Y are here as well, along with Ilia who brought the White Fang with them and many others

• All out war follows in the Volcanic Chain Isles


• Ilia is killed by Tyrian

• Ruby is saved by Cinder who returns and breaks her free from Tyrian and she destroys the Lord of the Wood’s form in an epic return that saves her friends this time


• Kassius, Blake and Adam say goodbye to Ilia when they find her, and she dies in Kassius’ arms…and Hyde begins to change, showing signs of a good side of the entity that is not just evil

• They storm the interior of the Volcanic Chain Isles where Salem is headed to take the Relic


• As they enter, Fury finds the treasure trove he lost all those years ago, but when he lays his hands upon the gold it crumbles to dust in his hands, leaving him with nothing

• He snaps, attacking everything in his path


• During the battle inside and outside, Adam loses his arm and Watts is killed by the combined teamwork of Neptune, Sun, Kassius and Oscar as they cause Fury to explode when they destroy him, the fire consuming and eradicating him in the process

• They battle the Knights and take them down one at a time in the final battle and they defeat Salem


• The Volcanic Chain under the ground erupts from Nora slamming her hammer into the ground with the combined power of Neptune’s electricity (his semblance in Knights of Grimm), and the Islands begin to explode

• Ruby gets the three Relics that were taken (one Relic was in Ozpin’s Cane (Knowledge)) and they finally take Ruby out of there


• Jacques learns of their defeat and goes into hiding as Ironwood is released by Willow

• Ruby kisses Oscar (starting Rose Garden)

• Yang takes Ruby back home, and Taiyang is getting ready to follow after they are debriefed


• But when they arrive Tyrian is waiting for them

• They engage in an intense fight, which leads to the destruction of their home at Patch, burning all their beloved memories of their mother


• Crescent Rose is also destroyed in the process, it breaks Ruby’s arm as well and she suffers intense burns on her body that scar her for life

• After a brutal fight between Yang and Tyrian, Weiss and Blake show up thanks to Raven’s portal and find the destruction and help fight Tyrian


• Tyrian is killed by Ruby, thrown off the cliff where her mother’s grave is, and she watches as he falls to his death

• Story ends with Salem on her own in the desert, because she teleported away when Ruby shot her with Crescent Rose


• She is confronted by Vir Nominis Umbra, revealing that this is only the beginning of the end




The Knights of Grimm – Act 3 – Shattered Memory
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12652167/1/The-Knights-of-Grimm-Act-3-Shattered-Memory




• Begins with a flashback of Pyrrha as a child, and people treating her poorly due to her name

• The flashback shows her meeting Vir Nominis Umbra as a kid and accidentally becoming bound by a pact with him, then showing her death and where she went


• To the Charred Forest, Ruby’s Nightmares

• Umbra states that now she is his to command and control


• 5 Years Pass…

• The world has entered a state of peace, but they know that it is not over, their enemies are just waiting for the right time to play their card


• RWBY fight against the White Fang, stopping him from completing a robbery with the White Fang

• Jaune continues his search to find Pyrrha with Nora, Ren and Kassius


• Someone is chasing her, but they get back to Beacon and reunite with everyone, Oscar and Ruby are now in a fully committed relationship

• A trader arrives with some equipment for Penny and supplies to help repair the school


• Qrow, Raven and Taiyang continue their search for the Spring Maiden

• Ruby reveals her PTSD when she sees a hallucination of Tyrian


• Jacques reveals himself to be alive and, on the run, re-recruiting Ortega and revealing a rivalry between him and Pyrrha Nikos

• Qrow, Tai and Raven have a new lead and they follow it to an Arkhoni Structure where they find Ozpin, the real Ozpin…in stasis somehow


• Ozpin is in a comatose state

• Salem is shown in the desert also on the run, wearing a poncho and being protected by the Lord of the Wood


• The Knights of Grimm return and show that the enemies are still out there, as they start cutting off loose ends with the help of Neo and the Spectre to not leave any openings in their plan

• Trouble in Vacuo arises when the Headmaster and his Pyromancer are assassinated by Cardin Winchester who also was forced to kill his team


• Pyrrha is shown to actually be in Vale as well, meaning Jaune’s search is closer to home that he actually realises

• A new enemy reveals itself to Qrow’s team, skeletal corrupted souls unlike the Grimm that attack them when they save Ozpin that track teleportations across Remnant and can appear anywhere at will


• They are called the Knights’ Bannermen

• Fennec and Corsac Albain are both revealed to be alive and have started a new, more fanatical, White Fang, one that kills anyone who does not believe in their ideas, including other Faunus


• At Vacuo a man named the Trinity Marshall sends soldiers after Weiss, committing a terrorist attack on a Schnee Dust Company Branch Building

• When RWBY, Sun, Neptune and Kassius investigate they are betrayed by Team N.D.G.O


• They have to fight them, and end up killing them all, Ruby butchers Dew by cutting her arm and legs off for some reason, showing signs of extreme savagery

• The Trinity Marshall is Jacques Schnee


• Jaune and his team track down and manage to save Pyrrha from the Spectre and Neo and the mercenaries at their disposal, protecting her at Beacon

• This attracts Atlas and Thaddeus Braxton, and he demands they hand her over so then they can have her face justice since they blame her for the fall of Beacon and Haven all those years ago, despite neither were her fault


• They get arrested and sent to Atlas where they come up with a plan to escape and save Pyrrha

• Neo’s backstory is revealed, showing that Umbra saved her from bandits and had her become one of his Proxies like the Spectre did


• On their journey, Qrow Raven and Tai meet with the Witches of the Restless Marshlands in the hope of finding the Spring Maiden since she passed through here, but they only give the information if they stop some Grimm from causing problems, and they find them – they are Merlot’s Monsters that glow green and they clear them out

• They find out she used a device called a Mirror that sent her somewhere called Ephai where another Mirror is, a type of portal but it is not very accurate since it would only go to those that remain


• And one is at Vacuo

• Oscar and Vir Nominis Umbra share an intimidating discussion about the Laws of the Mind


• Cinder and Hazel continue their search for the Summer Maiden, taking a boat through the abandoned Arkhoni City of Ephai

• They meet up with Qrow, Raven and Tai, battling against the Knights’ Bannermen, Fear and Fury along with Fennec and Corsac Albain with some Feral White Fang by their side


• But they learn that Yenna came out this mirror and not at Vacuo, but then she vanished and seemed to be with Summer

• Leaving their trail cold


• Ruby snaps at Weiss when she confronts her about Dew’s death, and she storms off into the desert on her own to be alone, and ends up fighting both Neo and Salem at once, nearly being killed if not for Oscar saving her life

• Jaune and his team are confronted by Ironwood and President Thaddeus Brimstone with something called the Atlesian Coalition, an idea that would have all Huntsmen serve the Atlesians instead of freelance


• Taking away their individuality

• Ortega’s past is revealed as he confronts Pyrrha in her cell, telling her his tale about his marriage to someone who was once his enemy, and that his daughter – Penny Polendina – took her own life when Pyrrha refused to help her when they were at Sanctum Academy


• He killed the bullies who hurt her, and was left with nothing but rage

• He could kill her, but he didn’t – because there is still goodness in Ortega, and even he knows that

• But he cannot face Penny as she is…not yet


• Ruby and Oscar use his semblance to get down to the Vault to find the Mirror, but they find something else – the Visionary Book

• She watches as Vir Nominis Umbra creates the Knights of Grimm after what Oscar had seen, as Kragen’s team are decimated by the Grimm, including his apprentice called Kannix Volantis


• Ruby agrees to go to Kragen and learn more about her Silver Eyes since she still cannot use them properly, so she goes to calm down and recover, learning more about her mother and her past with Kragen

• Blake goes to see Sienna to sort out the White Fang/Human Relations
• The Clean Slate begins – a protocol created by Vir Nominis Umbra and his many allies

• He has Vacuo, Mistral and Atlas crippled in 30 minutes, unleashing a plague called Horridus Morbus upon the city that infects Weiss, Yang, Sun and Neptune and the entire city


• Mistral is crippled by Umbra as he kills Sienna in the form of Blake to pin the blame on her and turn the White Fang against humanity and Blake once more

• Atlas gets attacked by the Acolytes of Lien, a bomb detonates and kills the Politicians of the world, including Ironwood, Thaddeus Brimstone, Willow, Klein, Lisa Lavender and many more


• Jaune’s team escape Atlas as the Acolytes take over the entire city from within
• As they escape, they are pursued by the Spectre and he shoots them down over the Emerald Forest

• Kassius snaps when he sees Nora, Ren, Port and Oobleck unconscious but he thought they were dead, and he goes berserk, letting Hyde take over as he fights Kannix


• Kragen, the Silver Eyed Warriors (Gray, Serena and Vos), the Architect, Oscar and Ruby arrive and help fight off the Lord of the Wood, and reveals that the Spectre is Kannix Volantis, Kragen’s long lost apprentice

• He reveals he is ageless thanks to Umbra and he was never killed on the islands, he was being torn apart over and over because his semblance is to convert pain into strength for healing, keeping him alive no matter what


• Before he could defeat his teacher the Lord of the Wood pulls him away

• They get everyone back to Beacon and Qrow takes a few friends with their aura up to save Yang, Weiss, Sun and Neptune from the now infected Vacuo


• Winter and Blake escape Mistral which is now under Acolytes of Lien control again

• Pyrrha and Jaune in the forest get caught by Umbra and he sends their souls back to the Charred Forest, through thousands of tests and eventually they survive them, returning back home after Pyrrha fights the Onyx Phantom demon and defeating it


• Raven and Qrow’s backstory are revealed

• Pyrrha and Jaune return and see Cinder again (despite that she is now on their side like Hazel)


• Adam turns against Blake and frees Mazen Ursus (White Fang Lieutenant) and they escape after a tense confrontation after the death of Sienna Khan

• Cinder reveals what happened to her after the Emerald Forest back in Act 2 when she saw Kassius again


• She was taken in after she collapsed from exhaustion by a farmer and he taught her it is never too late to come back, and that despite everything she has done, he still looked after her and made sure she survived

• When she woke up the farm was attacked, and he was murdered, so she tracked the killers down and killed them, vowing that nobody else will die for no reason again


• Not like her brother nearly did

• She is now an Anti-Hero


• They learn that Menagerie went quiet, which was one of the reasons that Sienna also wanted Blake to come by because of what happened, along with Ruby – not everything was about Faunus/Human Relations

• Menagerie went dark, so they agree to go investigate it


• Pyrrha ties her hair back into a ponytail again and she is back in her armour with a smile, being the great Pyrrha Nikos once more

• They go to Menagerie in the hopes to find answers there, and that hopefully to find Merlot (suspecting him to be the creator of the Horridus Morbus plague)


• When they arrive, it is barren and abandoned, once full of people and now a ghost town

• Then suddenly they find someone at the same time as when they recovered B.R.N.Z from Vacuo at the same time as the four Afflicted, and Brawnz shows symptoms of the mutations


• The disease mutates him into a feral zombie, bone mutating in his arm and forming a long tusk like claw through his limb, and despite he dies…he rises back up and kills May viciously and tries to do the same to Yang

• And everyone in Menagerie has suffered the same fate


• Horridus Morbus infects people and turns them into Grimm Hybrids that kill anything that moves

• The Menagerie team get attacked by a horde and they have to get inside of the Belladonna Estate to survive, only to be ambushed by the Knights of Grimm


• Kragen sends the three Silver Eyed ones to distract the Knight of Death but they get killed thanks to him, shaking Ruby’s trust in him, and Ruby reveals her Spirit Animal to him

• She ignites her eyes and transforms into the Big Bad Wolf as she fights Death, a huge black wolf like Fenrir


• The White Fang are here too, investigating the Merlot Industries facility at the radar station set up at the outskirts of the colony

• The team keep moving and arrive there too, seeing his many monstrosities and finally they find a corrupted Visionary Book inside of a research facility



• They also find Yenna at the facility, as it turns out she came here in the hopes to stop the experiments from getting any worse, only to fail


• Ruby uses it and sees a vision, of Vir Nominis Umbra destroying the four relics in a single moment and wiping out the entire universe

• Leaving nothing behind


• They speak to Merlot after, revealing he tested the plague that has been modified on to turn them into monsters by Umbra’s command

• The White Fang attack and Adam dies at the end along with Fennec and Port and the rest of the Elite White Fang (Bar Mazen and Corsac)


• They take Port back to be buried, but they don’t have the time

• Kassius, Jaune and Pyrrha go to find medicine to help the Afflicted, but Kassius finds something in his dorm – a live feed by Merlot


• He reveals that he is his father and that he has turned against Umbra – has always been against him, working in the shadows and learning to lie so then he gets all the information he can in the hopes to find a weakness in him for the real heroes

• He also reveals…that he made a pact with him…one to gain his trust, and the cost of that pact was to have a Higher Demon known as the Ebony Berserker to haunt Kassius – his eldest child


• This causes Hyde to snap in his mind, not wanting to believe himself a monster, and taking full control into a rage he has never known, one he could not be broken from, destroying his room and horrifying his father as he leaves

• Whereas back at the Amphitheatre – Vir Nominis Umbra arrives, and kills 20 of Raven’s bandits who were here guarding the place when they were away, and he does not even look at them, he just walks past them, and they all die instantly, every organ shutting down instantaneously


• Vir Nominis Umbra reveals that he was also the Old Shopkeep the whole time, the man they joked about was actually a monster, and he was always there for moments that would define their future

• Ruby meeting Torchwick, first meeting Penny, learning Penny’s secret, Emerald and Mercury, he was at the Vytal Festival when it all went wrong


• What was a joke…is now much more terrifying

• Umbra kills Oobleck, Roy, Nolan and Taiyang in front of them all, and suddenly Ozpin awakens from his coma and lands behind Umbra, revealing himself to be the long-lost Knight of Vengeance and the Entity of Time


• They engage in an epic battle and so do Arkos and Kassius, one that nearly kills both of them and Hyde runs

• Vir Nominis Umbra is weakened by Ruby’s eyes and Ozpin smashes his mace across Umbra’s face, actually hurting him


• Vir Nominis Umbra retreats, leaving them with everything they have lost

• Kassius gets captured outside Vale and teleported to Vacuo by the Trafficker’s leader – a bandit tribe well known for slavery, and Ruby disappears


• Vir Nominis Umbra locates and kills the Summer Maiden, stealing her power and becoming even stronger

• Story ends




The Knights of Grimm – Act 4 – Whispers of Arkhonex
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12981146/1/The-Knights-of-Grimm-Act-4-Whispers-of-Arkhonex




• Starts with a flashback to Arkhonex, showing an ancient Arc Relative of Jaune’s using Crocea Mors, an unbelievably powerful weapon that managed to decimate the Grimm in the final days of the war

• Jaune awakens, both he and Pyrrha stable, seeing the sword still shimmering, giving him his ancestor’s memories


• Ruby has become an Anti-Hero, losing faith in herself as a Huntress and stating she is no longer a huntress

• Kassius has been captured and turned into a slave, taken to an Arkhoni Structure in Vacuo’s deserts, a huge Coliseum


• He is forced to fight like a gladiator against other slaves, and one of those slaves is revealed to be Cardin Winchester

• They fight side-by-side but Cardin wins, but they become good friends instead of enemies


• Ruby’s friends head out to find her after she saved Jaune’s little sister and they find her at her mother’s grave, crying over the death of her father (of choice, not by blood)

• They take Ruby back so then they can send all those who died off with honour, saying goodbye at a beautiful funeral


• Ozpin explains himself, that he is actually a Knight of Grimm and lied to them all about it to protect them in case Umbra was listening, it was why he attacked Beacon in the first place

• He also explains that Umbra will bring about the annihilation of everything by destroying the Relics and ending everything


• There are four Higher Demons, but one of them is now on their side it just does not know it yet – the four are called: The Whisperer, The Onyx Phantom, the Lord of the Wood and the Ebony Berserker

• Qrow takes Yenna, Kragen and the Architect to the Witches since they are the best hope for the Afflicted’s survival from Horridus Morbus


• When they get there the place has been attacked, and they are confronted by the real Onyx Phantom, a powerful Demon that shows itself as a dark reflection, and the Lord of the Wood is there too

• They defeat them and recruit the Witches to help and they examine them, knowing a way but it means going to Arkhonex and finding the Embered Grove for a plant needed to create a cure


• Kassius and Cardin are in luck, for the White Fang now lead by Mazen Ursus – the new High Leader – attack the Traffickers and Kelham escapes, Mazen lets them go with honour in his eyes, now leading a bunch of insane Faunus soldiers behind him, starting to show signs of redemption in him

• As they make their escape, they stumble across someone long lost for an entire act – Emerald Sustrai – somehow alive but barely hanging on


• They take her somewhere safe and begin to patch her up with a med kit they found along the way

• They are confronted by Vir Nominis Umbra who helped them escape and he states that he wants to set up a game, of who gets to Arkhonex and Merlot first


• Kassius needs to find his father and a cure for Yang and the others

• Umbra wants Merlot punished for his betrayal


• Their interests are aligned

• When they are forced to agree, they turn to see Emerald has recovered, thanks to Vir Nominis Umbra


• The new trio (on shaky ground) know of a man who has his hands on Pyrrha’s Circlet that has something on it that can help them, thanks to Umbra reminding them

• They head out and recruit some old friends to help


• Jaune takes his friends and they meet with his parents since they know of Vyrryk Arc (Jaune’s Ancestor he saw in the memory at the beginning) and the family line, the past of the Arcs and many more, learning that they also have a hidden Visionary Book of Vyrryk’s past

• Cinder officially moves on from her past, letting her old dress Salem had her wear float away and she makes her own identity, changing her outfit and so on


• The Fallingwater Estate Heist begins

• Kassius called Velvet and Coco for their help and they accepted, since Yatsuhashi and Fox have been captured by the same enemy that they share


• They follow the heist through, getting the circlet and watching as Whitley murders a powerful Drug Lord for basically no reason

• They escape, and tensions are high in the team due to Emerald and her past with Beacon, and Cardin with Coco and Velvet


• Ruby’s team head out on their mission, using their ship and Raven’s portal to quickly get to Mistral to find a place called the Chapel of Vengeance and Dawn, a place that once belonged to a people called the Congregation of Dawn

• Fanatics who worshipped Vir Nominis Umbra as a god


• As they arrive, they find the book, but they get ambushed when Jaune uses it

• He lives his ancestor’s past, seeing everything he went through and the crimes the Chapel committed, officially starting the Faunus’ Horrific Judgement by humanity since they killed them for their race


• As Jaune exits the book he enters a fight with Kannix, Neo, Fear and the Knights’ Bannermen

• They narrowly win and nearly kill Kannix, but he gets away


• Kassius’ team head to the Island of Vytal – where Kassius was born and nearly died – and where the circlet hints at going to in its ancient language

• As they arrive, so does Salem, now fighting at full strength once more per Umbra’s orders


• She sends the Grimm in and they attack the Hunters

• They get inside and are faced with many horrors of their past


• Kassius and Hyde witness the truth of Hyde’s past as the Higher Demon, seeing a Universe ending by Vir Nominis Umbra’s hand

• First their memories and knowledge were lost, then their ability to do anything, and then everything physically crumbled away until nothing remained


• No explosion, it just silently ends

• Ortega betrays Jacques Schnee after they betray him by selling him out and trying to have the Trafficker’s Leader – Kelham take his place and taking away his chance to get his daughter back


• Ortega shoots Whitley in the head but Jacques’ recently released brother (a scientist) takes his son and transcends his aura into a modified Atlesian Knight Robot so then he can become an A.I

• Whilst they wait for anything Kassius’ team can find in the Map Room hinted at by the circlet, Kragen leaves the safety of the Chapel to take a moment


• Unaware that Kannix has been training to become the next Onyx Phantom’s Disciple like Pyrrha was with Neo

• And he has found him, going against Umbra’s orders


• The two fight and he nearly kills Kragen, leaving him, Qrow and Winter alone in the storm

• The heroes fight against the Grimm to get to Kragen but when they find him, they encounter a mysterious entity


• One called the Whisperer

• He nearly kills Kragen and kills them all


• If not for Ruby’s eyes, they would have died

• [Still ongoing now…]

• Yang meets with a merchant at her campfire and then the next day reunites with an old friend and old love of hers she had (a childhood crush in fact) named Kassius Locke in a motel, battling against bandits and catching up after all that lost time

• [Still ongoing

''''Act 1 - An Eye For An Eye'''

'''Act 2 - Captured'''

'''Act 3 - Shattered Memory'''

'''Act 4 - Whispers of Arkhonex'''

Can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12814700/1/The-Knights-of-Grimm-Act-1-An-Eye-For-An-Eye here]] at Website/FanFictionDotNet.

In this WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} story by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1181620/CosmicFiction CosmicFiction]], The Knights of Grimm is an epic six-Act long series where the heroes and heroines from WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} must battle against the toughest odds they have ever known. After the events of Volume 4, they would face choices they could not possibly be ready to make as they fight against threats without and within in a steadily darkening world of Remnant. Uncountable sacrifices will have to be made to defeat the leader of their enemy, a mysterious entity named [[spoiler: Vir Nominis Umbra]], with the Knights of Grimm as his disciples to bring about a sudden and apocalyptic end to the universe they live in.

This Page will act a location for current or new readers to catch up on the series so far in case they want to be at the start. (If you would like to read the series from the start and experience the series with no spoilers then I would recommend avoiding this page. Any feedback on the series is appreciated, and all the support I have received means everything to me.)

This page will summarise all the important points of each Act so you can catch up on everything you may have missed or forgotten:


The Knights of Grimm - Act 1 - An Eye For An Eye
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12814700/1/The-Knights-of-Grimm-Act-1-An-Eye-For-An-Eye


The story takes place directly after Volume 4, after the death of the Nuckelavee

Team RWBY begin their journey to Mistral, Weiss gets attacked by Mercenaries whilst Ruby meets with Professor Lionheart with Team RNJR and Qrow, Blake fights in her rebellion against the White Fang and Yang continues her journey

Yang meets with a merchant at her campfire and then the next day reunites with an old friend and old love of hers she had (a childhood crush in fact) named Kassius Locke in a motel, battling against bandits and catching up after all that lost time

Weiss finds Neptune and begins their romantic relationship as he protects her from the Mercenaries and gets her to a safehouse owned by the rest of Team S.S.S.N

RNJR meet with Lionheart and find their place

Blake in Menagerie captures the White Fang Lieutenant but that night Ilia warns them an attack is coming, and the first of the four Knights of Grimm attack the Colony. The Knight of Fury specifically is the first to be revealed, and he kills Ghira and Kali Belladonna, Sun and Blake escape on the ship they arrived on, heading to Mistral...broken from the heavy loss.