Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-26397825-20171028154114/@comment-27745396-20171029083226

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I understood it as the previous body's soul fades, leaving the current body's soul as the one in charge wiht the combined knowledge and memories of all his predecessors, but due to this the current body's soul will ultimately be a different person.

So, in theory, we could say that Ozpin/"the cursed soul" is RWBY equivalet for My Hero Academia's One for All. Expect, instead of superpowers, we are dealing with memories and knowledge...