Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-2020973-20170212204658/@comment-25936766-20170213003027

Sounds pretty Gnostic. It wouldn't be farfetched to say, following that idea, that every being on Remnant is a piece of the respective god that created them. Or gods, in the case of humanity.

Grimm being pieces of Steve, Lord of Dark. And humans being pieces of both Steve, Lord of Dark and Bob, Lord of Light. For example.

Of course, in this case "piece" doesn't necesarily need to mean "the God went kaboom, fragmented, and they appeared". Piece, in this case, could mean it was made from them. Like if a blob divided into tinier blobs. For all we know, the gods used up all they had on Humanity and went poof, or became too weak to have direct influence.

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Now, what does that mean for Salem and Ozpin, following that idea?

They could also be pieces....or they could be (bigger) remnants of the "old gods". Maybe a reincarnation, maybe an avatar, or maybe just related (demigods?). We still know too little of both to say anything with even some certainty.

Maybe Salem is related to Steve, explaining her control over the Grimm. It's harder to say for the Wizard however. He gave the Maidens their powers, and we've only seen the Fall Maiden's, who showed Elemental Powers.

Elemental Powers in itself can both work as Destruction or Creation depending on application. Water can both symbolize life and time, and inminent calamity. Fire can be a spark of creation, or destruction. And so on. If we assume all Maidens have the exact same powers, then the duality of those powers fits Humanity, made by both Light and Darkness.

But what does that say about the wizard? Unless Bob was a quasi-hipocrite all along, the God of Light and Creation giving powers of Destruction makes little sense, making the idea of Bob=Wizard (and possibly thus Ozpin) questionable.