Talk:Ozpin/@comment-26073173-20191225160817

I for one understand why Ozpin didn’t tell his allies about Salem’s immortality. Lionheart was described by Salem as one of Ozpin’s ‘most trusted’ but once he found out about her secret he flipped on him just like that. Ozpin also stated that Leo wasn’t the first one he trusted to that degree to turn on him so I’m guessing he realized that telling people about Salem was going to lead to mass treachery against him. The reason he kept it secret was because once they learned she couldn’t be killed the next question would be how he planned to stop her, to which he would have to respond that he didn’t know. If you’re a leader, you should never tell your subordinates that you don’t know what to do or morale will plummet. So Ozpin decided that if he couldn’t kill her and telling people was a bad idea, he would simply have to focus on defense and uniting the kingdoms to defend against her because that was all he could do. Honestly, Ozpin was just dealt a really really crappy hand.