Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.50.230.106-20150422005227/@comment-4010415-20150422012211

Ozpin is more than 80 years old.


 * When Monty released an image about the color naming rules, he said every single character follows the rule except for Ozpin "for reasons." We found out the color name thing is actually a tradition in their world that started almost 80 years ago. This means that, since Ozpin supposedly doesn't follow the color name thing, he's older than 80.


 * Glynda talks as if Ozpin is older than all of the adults at Beacon. She even says to Ironwood that Ozpin has more experience than all of them.


 * "I have made more mistakes than any man, woman, and child on this planet." - Ozpin, talking to Ruby. He must've been alive for a really long time, then.


 * World of Remnant: Aura ends with the narrator saying that, with enough training, a person's Aura can make them something more than just a man... while showing a silhouette of Ozpin.

I'm pretty damn sure that Summer is/was nowhere near as old as Ozpin, unless she, for some reason, waited until she was an old woman to have a child, but I highly doubt it.

Basically:


 * Ozpin's team wasn't receiving an education at the same time as Summer's team. If Ozpin had some kind of relationship with Summer, I believe Maki is right that it would've been Ozpin acting as Summer's mentor.


 * I'm pretty sure that, since Ozpin is apparently quite older than Glynda and Ironwood, he was not on the same team as Glynda and Ironwood.


 * In short, Ozpin is probably the oldest character we've met so far, even though he doesn't look that old. His Aura seems to be extending his lifespan. I wouldn't be surprised if he was 100 years old and witnessed the "war on individuality" himself.

In a nutshell, I'm just adding details and explanation to what Maki and Live said above.