Arslan Altan

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**Arslan Altan** is the leader of Team ABRN. Arslan and her team were first revealed at the RTX 2015 *RWBY* Panel on August 7th, 2015. Arslan is seen fighting Yang Xiao Long during the Vytal Festival Tournament.

## Appearance

Arslan has a dark complexion, platinum blonde hair and olive green eyes. She wears a yellow robe with only one wide, loose fitting sleeve over a black tube top. She also has black pants and shoes and a red sash embroidered with a white "endless knot" on it.

She has bandages on her legs and arms, as well as a red necklace and what appears to be two matching red sticks on the back left side of her head.

In her concept art, she wore both sleeves, which hung loosely at her side, exposing her shoulders. Her tank top also had straps. She wore boots instead of shoes and lacked the pins in her hair and necklace. In their place, she had red bands in her hair.

## Powers and Abilities

Arslan is shown to be skilled at hand-to-hand combat, being relatively evenly-matched with Yang in both speed and physical strength despite the fact Arslan fights barehanded. Her strength is later demonstrated once more when she swings down a Nevermore and lifted the taller and bulkier Yatsuhashi Daichi with a single arm before throwing him into the air with ease.

Her weapon of choice is a dagger which she attaches to her bandages to transform it into a rope dart. She is relatively proficient with it, being able to trip up her opponents and catch them off-guard with it and even using it while she's simultaneously avoiding her opponent's attacks, jumping and flipping over the thread before launching it towards them to catch them when they least expect it.

She can also use her rope dart to swing around objects and even using it to swing herself in an arc down a Nevermore before bringing herself back into the air with it. Among her abilities is focusing Aura into a single large hit, which she can use to shatter objects such as large, rolling iceballs.

She appears to be one of the stronger, if not the strongest member of her team, and she saves her teammates Bolin Hori and Nadir Shiko from being knocked out of the ring. Ultimately, however, Arslan and her team are outclassed by Team RWBY.

Through an unknown method, Arslan is capable of shooting fireballs from her hand as seen in "Heroes and Monsters".

## History

Arslan and her team are students at Haven Academy, from the kingdom of Mistral. Her team journeyed to participate in the 40th Vytal Festival combat tournament, hosted by the kingdom of Vale, but they were defeated by Team RWBY in the team round of the tournament.

When Vale is invaded by the Grimm and the White Fang, Arslan participates in taking down the Nevermore in Amity Colosseum. In this short fight, she propels Yatsuhashi to deliver the killing blow, along with Sage Ayana, after she retrieves her weapon. Later on, she defends Beacon Academy with the rest of the students.

## Trivia

* *Arslan* is Turkish and Mongolian for "Lion". *Altan* means "red dawn" in Turkic languages and "golden" in Mongolian.
* Altan (Telgey) is a Mongolian earth goddess.
* When asked what color Arslan's eyes were, her character designer, Erin Winn responded that she calls them olive green.
* The fighting styles of Team ABRN (particularly Arslan) were stated on the DVD commentaries to be intended to have an Eastern martial arts influence to reflect the fact that they come from Haven.

## References

1. ↑ **"Round One" Scoreboard**
2. ↑ **Erin Winn's Tumblr**
3. ↑ ***RWBY* Volume 3 Crew Commentary Episode 1**