Trivia / Relic of the Future

• Outdated by Canon: Perhaps inevitably, as RWBY released further episodes, there were some revelations that contradict the events of the fic. The author is doing his best to integrate new information into the story, but some contradictions are seemingly impossible to properly justify.
  • As a whole, the state of the setting in the first chapter has become incompatible with the way canon developed after it was published circa Volume 5. Some characters lived and died when canon would show the reverse, and the same goes for locations being intact and destroyed. Events from later Volumes are still mentioned, with an implication of Broad Strokes.
  • In the first chapter Salem is seemingly afraid of dying despite that she has been cursed with Complete Immortality and actually made numerous suicide attempts in the past. She also claims she was the god who gave Ozpin his reincarnation and it was by accident, a claim that was proven wrong and never mentioned again. Jaune is surprised by the revelation, when he has had the correct information for years.
  • Jaune starts the story extrapolated from his status at the end of Volume 5. As such there's no sign of the Dust functions his weapons received in Volume 7 (there's even a line where he muses that he should have upgraded his shield in his past life but didn't), nor the sword being broken in Volume 8 (granted that could have been reversed later, but it's still outdated not to mention it happening).
  • In the backstory, Ozpin manages to collect all four Relics together and forge them into a weapon capable of killing Salem. According to Volume 6, bringing all four relics together should result in the Gods coming back to Remnant and destroying humanity, should it not be united by then. Chapter 122 addresses this, as Jaune clarifies that there's a specific way to bring the Relics together without summoning the Gods, implying that he believes that this was the Gods' true intentions all along for the heroes to solve the problem of Salem.
  • The circumstances of Summer's death still aren't fully known, but Volumes 7 and 8 suggest that it was quite different than in this fic, where she was simply ambushed by Tyrian and Hazel like so many fellow Huntsmen were. Additionally, the fic has Summer asking why Raven didn't try to save her (as Summer never used her one save), but Volume 9 revealed that Raven and Summer were on the mission together.
  • Contrast Salem's canon endgame to destroy the whole world so she could die, to this fic having her rule over a small remainder of mankind so that the planet can preserve its supply of Dust and she can live on it as long as possible.
  • While it's not a contradiction per se, Jaune seeing Ozpin as a master manipulator and blaming himself for not having spoken up against him makes far less sense after the So That's How It Is episode in which Ozpin openly admits to having no grand plan and leaves the heroes to fend for themselves, doing the precise opposite of what Jaune accuses him of doing in this story.
  • Considering that Volume 7 ends with Ironwood shooting Oscar into a pit, and Volume 8 sees him fall further, the fact that one of Jaune's first actions in the new timeline is to ensure that Ironwood still gets the job of General is rather odd. Conversely, considering that Emerald defects from Salem and joins the heroes in Volume 8, it's odd that he immediately gets the impulse to kill her when he meets her again.
  • Much of what Relic conjectured about the lay of Vale's criminal underworld and Junior's gang (at least in the years prior to Volume 1) would end up contradicted by RWBY: Roman Holiday, which was released near the end of the fic.

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