Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26822171-20151216132821/@comment-24432027-20160108044843

Spiegelmeister wrote: @ThunderBringerStormBrook

SpiritedDreaming wrote: The tale of the man with two soulds was a novel, not a fairy tale. There is a difference between a fictional noval and a fairy tale, the biggest of which is that fairy tales usually have some life lesson and fictional novels do not, though the characters of the novels can learn life lessons. If anything the two souls novel was more likely foreshadowing/ allusion to Adam and his seemingly bipolar disorder of a semblance. Remember the Maiden part of the story was not originally planned, so for something that early to allude to it doesn't make sense unless they really thought it through.

As for the likelihood of fairy tales, see the Worldbuilding section of my post here. The whole intro to Vol 1 was essentially setting us up for this, and I've always had the thought in the back of my head that there are far greater powers out there (gods/deities, legendary/mythological creatures, etc) that we (and now it seems the public of Remnant) just weren't told about/aware of.

Which is the reason why Ruby cannot be a maiden without her backstory. It's like a programmign code you can't proceed without the prior function being written.