Talk:The Lost Fable/@comment-29684190-20181206132900/@comment-4010415-20181207191013

Dude, you're way overthinking it. 99.99999999% of the time, writers of any fictional medium, don't think that deeply about it because they don't need to because it's fiction and is merely intended for entertainment.

The way the scenes were laid out does suggest that Salem intended to replace the magic-less mankind with magicals one way or another, regardless of any argument as to how that would be far too difficult when you actually sit down and think about it.

And we actually don't know if Salem and Ozpin can't produce children with magical powers with non-magicals, especially considering it appears that Ozma did actually produce silver-eyed children with a normal woman. For all we know, the fact that Ozma's soul plants itself in a non-magical human's body could allow him to implant magic into the offspring he creates with non-magical humans.

Salem has immense magical power, is literally unkillable, and appears to have all the patience in the world, so she probably thought that she could wipe out the non-magicals over time once the magical population had reached a level that she was satisfied with.

Salem was planning to kill off the people who wouldn't worship her and Ozma as gods, as it is. Clearly, she believed she could actually destroy the people she didn't want around. As she said: "You said we needed to bring humanity together. In order to do that, we have to spread our word, and destroy those who will deny it."

Then, their eldest daughter comes in and shows that she can do magic. Ozma explains the mission that the God of Light gave to him, and then we get this line from Salem:

"Don't you see? None of that matters anymore. Why spend our lives trying to redeem these humans when we can replace them with what they could never be?"

She is saying to unite and redeem the currently-existing humans doesn't matter anymore because they can just replace them with "better" humans.

The grammar here is important. "Why spend our lives trying to redeem these humans when we can replace them with what they could never be?" What does "them" refer to? To answer this question, you look earlier in the sentence to find what subject she is talking about. In this case, the subject is "these humans". If she was talking about replacing the gods (which she and Ozma had already done), her wording would have been different.

So regardless of the actual logistics of such a plan, that's what she was talking about.