Talk:Salem/@comment-74.14.201.155-20160215213016/@comment-27805327-20160215225351

If anything, she is likely the mother of Grimm. Cinder is clearly her apprentice. It struck me as unusual that, when the grimm dragon approached Cinder, she was able to soothe it and get it to calm down. There is a connection or affiliation between the Salem/Cinder faction and the Grimm. It is possible that Salem is the source of the Grimm.

Ozpin is a champion of humanity in the war against the darkness. Who knows how old he is, but it was Ozpin who narrated the Volume 3, World of Remnant chapters. He aluded to being very old when he was explaining the Maidens to Pyrhha. Ozpin is very old and Salem is ancient. It is likely that Ozpin was there at the beginning of the great war and led the forces against the darkness that established the current period of relative peace.

If Ozpin IS very old, then there is next to zero chance that Salem is a contemporary, since she views him as a direct rival. To put that is perspective, Sauron did not consider Gandolf to be a direct rival, even though they were essentially of the same species and similar age.