Talk:Salem/@comment-35455126-20181219200035/@comment-35434444-20181219205501

Salem is a being that exists on such timescales that I don't think it is entirely appropriate to view her actions in terms of what seems practical in the present moment.

As dangerous as the silver eyed power is, if she is able to counter them at all, I can't imagine Salem could have failed to wipe them out by now if she was at all serious about it seeing as they're already so scarce.

Therefore, it is my conjecture that Salem and the silver eyed warriors are at an impasse similar to that between herself and Ozpin. She cannot ignore them because otherwise they would multipli, the silver gene, as it were, being hereditary. But at the same time, just when she thinks she's stamped out the children of Mercurius for good, the silver springs out of the non-silver like a twinkling of the stars out of the empty night sky.

This process would go on and on down the ages untill Salem and the Mercurians (as I will call them from now on in the name of alchemical quicksilver that features in the Brother's Grimm story, "The Spirit in the Bottle") faded into the occult, neither legend able to overcome the other -- bringing us to the present situation:

It is my beilef that Salem has given up slaying the Mercurians and instead is looking to study them. It won't have escaped her notice that Ozpin is travelling with Ruby either, which would suggest that Ozpin may know something she doesn't. That in of itself would force her hand into investigating a living subject.

Either way, the Mercurians are of divine energy. It is not within Salem's power to corrupt them anymore than she can break her own curse through force of magic.