Talk:Ozpin/@comment-24.171.87.142-20140710150348/@comment-26563366-20150727173511

As a followup I went back to volume 1, episode 7: the emerald forest part 2 and found something that could be interesting.

If you watch from 2:19 up to 2:34 you get to see all of the chess pieces that Ozpin laid out for the students at different angles. I'll be referring back and forth between 2:21 and 2:31 alot so you can follow along with what I'm saying. At 2:31 we get to see the full circle of pieces from above: this allows us to see the positions of all the taken pieces. One is taken on the left and two can be seen taken from the right. The one that Blake is standing in front of is still there as you can see by going back a bit to 2:28. So three pieces are missing and I'm  going to tell you which ones they are. The normal order of chess pieces is by going up the ranks: pawn, rook, knight, bishop, queen and then king. If we presume the pieces are mirrored, there isn't a clearer shot than at 2:21 to figure out if this pattern fits. As we can see from the blacks it starts with both pawns, and then a rook can be seen and it is presumably followed by the second rook. Now we can look over to the gold side and see that there are pawns at the start, a blocked gap, and then two knights. Again, we are presuming that this is symetrical and so the pieces in the covered gap must be the two rooks. So far it's following the pattern. Next we expect to see the bishops but there are no clear shots to prove they are there. That's because if we move to the next episode (8: players and pieces) Ozpin tells us that the two black bishops were taken by team CRDL. This eplains the two pieces missing from the black side in the overhead view at 2:31. Going back to what I said earlier, at 2:28 we can see Blake stood infront of the black king piece. This fills in the last two pieces. But this leaves out one chess piece or rather 4. Notice, if there are 2 of each class then there should be 12 pieces of each colour. There are only 20 pieces there, 10 of each colour. This means that Ozpin didn't place any Queen pieces.Why? I don't know. But I get the feeling that it has something to do with the black queen piece Cinder associates herself with

Just a theory