Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160225024520/@comment-27143816-20160225035421

Lord Jaric wrote: Or it went to it simple sought out it other half, or went to Cinder because she was the last person Amber saw and Cinder fits the qualifications both of which the Brotherhood fear would happen if Amber died before they could do anything. There is no reason for it to be anything other then what we've been told. The Maidens have been around long enough that if the eyes were a factor they would be known, it is quite clear that in the millennia of their existence, that eyes aren't a factor.

I litterally said that first point in that post. Maybe Ozpin and his group didn't know about that factor as they, in the grand lives of the maidens, haven't been around too long. But Salem (who fr all we know could have a higher knowladge of the Maidens then Ozpin) told the connection to Cinder and told her to locate and attack the Maiden with the orange eyes.