Any of you read the Norwegian comic book
Northern Lights by Malin Falch? Its a portal fantasy where people can travel between worlds by using pinecones that grow on magical trees to create portals between realms.
However the trees aren't just magic, they're actually all part of the same mystical tree (Yggdrasil) that resides partially in the physical worlds and partially in the astral realm/spirit world.
That concept isn't particularly unique, I'm sure there's tons of other stories that have used similar ideas of a multiversal tree.
Which makes me curious if CRWBY are doing it as well. Maybe the way the big tree in the Ever After can be used to travel back to Remnant is by leading from the part of it that resides in the Ever After to a part that resides in Remnant.
If that's the case then I have a suspicion about where that might be:
Cinder: "
Hm, it's certainly grander than Beacon's. I wonder what the extra effort was for."