Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-34553226-20180202120254/@comment-26018514-20180413155128

Jaden Marks wrote:

...We can infer that the brother deities are real because they are confirmed by Ozpin who more than likely cursed him to defeat Salem sometime after the creation of the Maidens. But let's look at the idea of them being an older race than humanity and Faunus.

Before humanity came the Grimm ... able to form kingdoms...

The beginning remains the same, the Grimm were created but were made dormant by the god of darkness when he and his elder brother created humanity. Possibly millennia passed and human culture grew, advanced and evolved beyond that of a primitive state...

...it was during this time that Ozpin was born... He created the maidens to spread their gifts...

...sometime afterwards, possibly one of the maiden successors...

...Silver-Eyed Warriors as a race...

...mankind actually created the Faunus during the middle of their civilization's end to act as a secondary food source for the Grimm to feast upon and give mankind more time to find a counter against them. After time, they discovered Dust and found that it was effective against the Grimm enabling them to fight back without the Silver-Eyed Warriors who, despite being incredibly effective, were still small in number and not widely accepted due to their strange abilities.

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1. We can indeed infer the Brother deities are real, but we cannot infer anything like that timeline, there is nothing to indicate Ozpin predates Salem, let alone that the maidens do.

2. We can assume all of this more or less happened

3. there is nothing indicating Civilization was significantly advanced prior to Ozpin's first birth.

4. there is also no indication Ozpin was born with magic, indeed, from his own story he seems to indicate he started as a NORMAL human(or alternate race altogether, but a normal specimen). He also indicates he was quite old and weary of the world prior to creating the maidens, which indicates his curse was already in effect, Therefore Salem already existed and the brother gods were already gone.

5. Again, Salem already existed, we also know she was not a maiden as Ozpin had all 4 maiden's under protection when Spring went missing ~ 10 years before the start of the series... if Salem had been an original maiden they would have only had 3 maidens under his protection... EVER.

6. Ozpin has indicated SEW's are ancient, likely existing before the maidens.

7. what even indicates to you Faunus could be such a young Race? Everything we know indicates Faunus either predate or always existed simultaneously with humanity, yet your timeline puts their creation long after Ozpin became jaded with his own life experience.