Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181110034633/@comment-27901976-20190122045829

73.Anon.52 wrote: Except there was no malice in what they did? Salem lied to them while demanding they interfere, then when one of them gave her what she wanted despite having his own rules not to interfere he was told she lied to him almost completely so he denied her access to the underworld by making her IMMORTAL only until she LEARNED... and rather than simply learn something she took their mortals and turned them against the gods.

Could they have just killed her? yes, but that would defy the purpose of the lesson, Malice has nothing to do with it, spite you can make a case for, but not malice. Yes, it is malice. They did not want her to LEARN, they wanted her to SUFFER. They created humanity in RWBY. They knew that it this will not make her learn anything. After all, what God of Light made before he left? He revived Ozma and make him into his puppet, essentially turning him against Salem.