Team STZN

STZN (pronounced "Stone") is a team of students at w:c:rwby:Beacon Academy, five years before the events of the main series. They were created by the "RWBY" QuizUp community during the February 2016 Original Character Contest.

So far, much of their information and history is unknown, but will reveal itself over time, hopefully with help from the people who made it.

History
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Battles and Events
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Image Gallery
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Trivia

 * The team was created in the February 2016 Original Character Contest for the "RWBY" community of the trivia app QuizUp (downloaded for mobile devices here and here, or on a desktop site here, with the topic directly linked here). As the team name was kept a secret exclusively known to the contest judges, only one letter was revealed each week for participants to name their characters, as well as finding a cultural inspiration based on one of the four classical elements of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth that was voted on by the people while the winning entry was decided.
 * Earth was automatically selected for the first week's elemental theme, as it fit the "stone" name and was meant as tribute to Monty Oum, whose nickname was "Rocky".
 * The third week for Fire was the only one that allowed any letter to be used for the character, as the judges wanted to follow RWBY's example of replacing a vowel with a random consonant.
 * Along with the team letters for their characters' given names, contestants were also given the first letters of what their family names should start with in order to spell out "LKMY" (pronounced as "Alchemy") like the team name, in order to give them something unique that was apart from other fan creations and to better connect to the overall theme.
 * The name "Stone" for the team was decided early on to reference the Philosopher's Stone, a mythical substance that was capable of transmuting metals into gold and creating the Elixir of Life, which bestowed immortality for those who drank it.
 * This was decided due to the fact that the scientific process to create the Stone, known as the Magnum Opus, was heavily dependent on four stages defined by the same colors used to make up Team RWBY: Nigredo (blackening), albedo (whitening), citrinitas (yellowing), and rubedo (reddening). Monty, strangely enough, was not aware of this coincidence until the show was in development, as he had originally thought of the four colors in a dream.
 * It also has connections to media that was related to RWBY in some way, such as Fullmetal Alchemist (which was referenced in the first episode, as well as having the English voice actor for main protagonist Edward Elric voice Qrow Branwen) and Harry Potter (with the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry being commonly compared to Beacon Academy).
 * Along with the four elements theme, it was decided upon the inclusion of the first two winners that the entire team would be based on mythological gods from varying cultures, each of whom are also parents of multiple children.
 * Sepia is based on Gaea, the Greek goddess of the Earth who was the mother of the Titans and Gigantes.
 * Tangelo alludes to Amun-Ra, the Egyptian king of the sky that is credited with creating all forms of life.
 * Zaff is inspired by Xihe, a solar Chinese goddess that birthed ten sun crows that could burn the world.
 * Nero takes influence from Ægir, a Norse ocean giant who conceived nine billow maidens with his wife Rán.