Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-26397825-20171028154114/@comment-27648673-20171029032436

MetallicArcher wrote: SpiritedDreaming wrote: Huh. I didn't think they sounded anything alike, personally, and it wasn't just because Ozpin uses pretentious words while Oscar speaks like the nervous young teen he is.

So, question. Ozpin said he was cursed by the God s, meaning both brother gods, for failing to stop Salem. Who or what is Salem them, and why is even the God of Darkness against her?

Can we be sure the Brother Gods are the only Gods out there?

Qrow said "people have created dozens of gods. But if you believe Ozpin, two of them are actually real."

Which is not the same as saying that they are the ONLY real gods. It's more like out of the dozens of gods people created, AT LEAST these two are real. I was more under the impression that the Gods don't really pick sides. Qrow made them out to be "good vs evil", but it's important to remember that they made humanity together, and gave humans the power to choose "light or darkness". Therefore, we can assume that Salem (who is clearly not human, even if she was before, IMO) somehow threatens that concept of choice, which is why the Gods are assisting the humans in defeating her - after all, she does seem to want to destroy humanity (+faunus), which both Gods created, and which also (apart from the Faunus) are the only species able of choosing in the first place.

There's also the possibility that the Gods fall under a Chessboard Trope, where they see Remnant and everything within it as an interesting experiment, or entertainment. I don't find this very likely, though.

I'd also like to add that I doubt Ozpin's situation is actually a curse - it just may seem like it to him and people who have gone through that same experience. If the Gods expected him to defeat Salem, they probably expected that of him for a particular reason, so the Gods likely gave him this reincarnation ability to assume that the prime candidate for Salem Destruction™ was always around.