Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-27234079-20200111162942/@comment-34724302-20200113095430

Alhazad2003 wrote: Masma93 wrote: I seriously suspect the heroes and Ironwood of being falling into the trap of thinking that they are doing better than Ozpin with them having a different policy than him and by having told others the truth about Salem, but I think that they are too focused on Ozpin's mistakes and are ignoring the better aspects of Oz's policy and the full reasons why he chose to not reveal Salem's existence to the public.

Next volume may be a hard wake-up call for the heroes I fear, with the full consequences of telling the truth to Ironwood about Salem and telling the people about Salem being shown and with Ironwood and the heroes doing serious mistakes that could cause the fall of Atlas Academy and island. I disagree, uniting the people against Salem is the best thing Ironwood can do, since they can't fight an enemy they don't even know exists. Salem has prospered for so long by hiding in the shadows and turning people against each other. And Ozpin unfortuantely made it too easy for her to do so, fighting the whole war basically alone, trusting no one but himself with the whole truth.

Think about it, Salem herself admits that humanity is a notable threat when united, if it were not true then she wouldn't try so hard to prevent it.

Not to mention a united mankind would help Ozpin complete his original goal. And once Salem has been vanquished, he can use the Relics to summon the Two Brothers back to Remnant, and thus get a favorable judgment. If mankind remains divided and in the dark, there's no way he'll be able to complete his mission. That would work only if he really manage to unite humans against Salem but this is far from being the case, he may have managed to rally Mantle citizens with Robyn's help but we have not seen Atlas inhabitants' reaction yet and I doubt it will be the same than for Mantle's. And the reactions of the inhabitants of Vale, Mistral and Vacuo could be different too if Ironwood manages to communicate with them. And Salem and/or her subordinates are likely going to sabotage his attempts of unifying humanity in a spectacular way.

Besides I don't expect things to go really that well between him and the heroes and Robyn next Volume once he gets proper time to react to the truth about Ozpin and Salem's past and that the heroes didn't fully trust him and once he make new plans to deal with Salem with the knowledge of her being immortal.

And I wouldn't be surprised if at least one of Ozpin's predecessors tried to reveal Salem's existence to the public but that the results caused him to decide that it was better to keep her existence secret from most.