Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27276671-20160214220907/@comment-27364374-20160215011656

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Ruby is not the Winter Maiden, she is something else entirely. That was the point of the story Qrow told her; she is the legacy of a different story, one not related to the Maidens at all. Here's a different line of thinking: Ruby is related to the origanal wizard from the four maidens story. Now it might sound like a bit of a long shot but hear me out.

I found a picture of the wizard from the WoR episode and, it's hard to tell for sure, but he might have silver eyes. It's hard to tell if his eyes are a very dull green or if the color scheme of his outfit is throwing off the color of the silver. Also as Qrow said the silver eye thing is genetic and marks powerfull people, so I would say that the creator of the four Maidens could be powerfull enough to live up to thier silver eyed legacy.

This theory also fits if the rest of team RWBY take the remaining seasons of the maidens (Wiess - Winter, Yang - Summer, Blake - Spring?) then Ruby and her team could take on Cinder in an awesome battle of Fall VS Summer, Winter, Spring and the wizard.

It would also explain why Qrow is part of the group to protect the maidens, it would boil down to his want to protect Summer Rose (Who would also have been related to the Wizard) and after her death, his want to protect Ruby.