Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20170217011737/@comment-27082610-20170220195722

On the subject of Salem guiding humanities development: I don't really think so. The thing is, when humanity discovers something, they like to do whatever they can with it, exhausting its possibilities before moving on to the next new thing. Dust, given how amazingly useful and destructive it is, is all humanity needs at the moment. We have no idea what their development of chemistry and, as far as technology is concerned Remnant appears to be farther along than we are, so I don't really know what you're trying to say there.

And who says Salem has her hands full with the current number of kingdoms? It's not like humanity was outright winning the war against the Grimm when the show started, they'd just found safe places to hole up in and grow. I don't think it's giving her too much credit as it is placing too much importance on her as a historical figure. Yes, Oniyuri and Kuroyuri, were destroyed by Grimm, but I don't really think Salem actively controls each individual ones. They have autonomy and seek and destroy all humans/faunus they can find.