Talk:Ozpin/@comment-2602:306:8359:73C0:2138:A360:895F:BAA3-20180403052905/@comment-4010415-20180403200042

But the King of Vale himself, as in the vessel itself, did not become headmaster. He certainly lived long enough to supervise the building of the academies and put people in charge as the headmasters.

And Raven seemed to imply that the reason that Headmaster Ozpin became Beacon's headmaster at such an astonishingly young age is because he had already become the new vessel.

Weiss: He was… a prodigy. One of the youngest headmasters to be appointed to a school.

Raven: Because that’s how he planned it. Because the man you know as Ozpin designed those schools and has followers inside every academy on Remnant that are loyal to him and no one else.

"Because that's how he planned it."

Either Ozpin was already the new vessel, or the King was somehow certain that the follower he placed at Beacon would be his next vessel.