Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20170114144645/@comment-4010415-20170115062947

TheMidnightDreary wrote: I believe that the relics are what gave ozpin(his predeccessors) his power and I think it's the same with the maidens and the SEW's. During the time of the great war I think the king had all the relic as crow said ozpins predeccessor created the schools to protect the relics. It would explain how the he managed to destroy an entire army on his own and everyone today thinks of it as a natural disaster that caused all that death. It's not necessarily that they think a natural disaster caused all the death.

It's that they think that "strange weather" and Mantle's inexperience with desert helped Vale's king manage to defeat them.

It depends on how powerful one Relic alone is, but he could've done it with just a single Relic, specifically Destruction.

As for the Maidens and the SEWs... Glynda said the Maidens have been around for thousands of years, so unless Ozpin's predecessor was millennia old, I doubt he is the one who made them. Qrow said SEWs have existed since before Huntsmen and that the story about the SEWs is really old, so they've probably been around for thousands of years too.