The worse has come to happen. Atlas has fallen. Qrow is missing. The Lamp is Missing. And Salem is out there again. And now, a new enemy rises from the shadows, searching to take everything by any means necessary, threatening to ignite the flames of war once again to burn all of Remnant. Team RWBY and their allies must now face the tide of war if they want to save what remains

Following the fall of Atlas, things only get more complicated in Remnant. Without the Atlesian Army present to protect the people or provide support, a new power, thirsting for a long-awaited revenge, rises from the Shadows: The Commonwealth of Maelstrom