Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170206193307/@comment-26397825-20170217053544

If Ozpin was the one to build the Academies, and Salem knows Ozpin, the Name salem has had at least 80 years of planning this shit out. She's had 80 years to let the people get comfortable and settled into peace, to stop mistrusting each other. She's had 80 years to hand pick and/or hand train key players, to insert her spies and lay groundwork for her plans. This isn't some little half-concocted scheme that took six months to slap together. It's been in the works for at least 80 years.

Comparatively, other than Ozpin the oldest people in the group are in their 40s. They've had 25 years at most of even thinking there's trouble, and for all that they are good at what they do, 25 years isn't even a third of the minimum time Salem has spent organising this shit.

Honestly, the fact they're still fighting is an accomplishment in and of itself when you look at those numbers.