Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-36446807-20180803045826/@comment-14909251-20180807002536

BlizzardDragon wrote: The Devil&#039;s Advocate WP wrote: Qrow: When Ozpin's predecessor founded the schools, he built them around the Relics to act as a fortress. Not only would they be easier to defend, but they would constantly be surrounded by trained warriors. The hope was that hiding them would keep mankind from using them against itself... and, of course, keeping them out of her reach.

The Schools were built around the relics. While the Relic of Knowledge implies that the relics themselves were movable, I don't believe the Vaults were. Note that the Vault of Knowledge seems to open into a pocket dimension, something that had to have been created supernaturally. Ozpin has made it clear that most of his power is only a fraction of what it once was.

Ozpin: My power is finite, and if I'm being honest, dwindling. The amount that I gifted to Qrow and Raven was, all things considered, rather miniscule. You see, centuries ago, I sacrificed a great deal of magic to four young women, who I hoped would use my gift for good. They were the first Maidens.

If giving two humans the power to shapeshift is miniscule, how much power would it take to create not one, but four pocket dimensions. And if the Dimensions are attuned to a Vault that can only be opened by a specific portion of his power, I.E. the Maiden abilities, unless he was able to find the current holders easily at the time of their construction, how did he attune them?

The only answers are either

A. He made the vaults before he divided the powers and used different parts to attune the Vaults, which so happened to be the Maiden Powers.

B. He didn't make the Vaults himself and the powers somehow harmonized with them.

C. He made the Vaults after giving up his power and used the relics themselfs to make the Vaults.

D. He made the Vaults after giving up his power and tracked down the current maidens, somehow.

Answer A again raises the idea that the story is bs considering dividing the powers that open Vaults with gifts of god in them makes it harder to open them but also leaves them vulnerable to being hunted down, making it a big lapse in judgement.

Answer B is a Voodoo Shark.

Answer C makes it extra risky considering the whole point is to hide the damn things, and if all four are needed then he'd have to travel all over Remnant just to make each four, then do it again so he can put each one in. If just the Relic of Creation, then he still has to carry at least 2 relics at all times making it still a big target.

Answer D... Seems like a lot of assumptions are being made here about his power level and the power necessary to create a small fixed dimensional space. You are also overlooking the key part in Qrow's quote stating "The hope was that hiding them would keep mankind from using them against itself... and, of course, keeping them out of her reach." That implies they were not being actively hidden until the schools were built. Of course, the schools were built around the relics as he would presumably want the relics in place before building the schools to keep the knowledge of their presence as limited as possible.