Talk:Salem/@comment-4975368-20161030044931

Here is a theory I have about her. She is from ancient times when magic was well known around the known world. Her father was Ozpin (And he's the wizard from the four maidens) and he raised her in sort of isolation from the world. When she went out into the world to help others with her magic she saw how cruel humanity is and saw the Grimm as the answer to humanity. So she sought to control them and created a potion to turn herself into one of them (Explaining her appearance) the potion would give her control over Grimm and corrupt her magic with dark energy. The potion required three ingredients, the black tar stuff Grimm come from, ashes of the dead, and the blood of a silver-eyed warrior. When she drank it she lost her soul and gained the power to control Grimm, she led a rampage across the dragon continent, creating the black lands we saw on it. She gained human followers and began experimenting with the Grimm essence to create new types of the Grimm (I believe she created the Grimm Dragon). Once Ozpin discovered what she had done, he led an army to destroy her forces. When Ozpin had the chance to kill her, he chose to cast a spell that trapped her to the black lands she created forever imprisoning her from the rest of Remnant. Which is why she has human followers doing her every command and why she's not leading a genocidal war herself.