Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26955524-20160531053339/@comment-4010415-20160531055135

Well, we do know that Ozpin is very, very old.

Monty used to go on about how Ozpin's really old, he's an old man, he's old as dirt, he's not gonna get up and fight unless he absolutely positively needs to, even though he's incredibly powerful.

He also said that the characters in RWBY follow the Color Naming Rule, but Ozpin doesn't "for reasons". We ended up finding out that the CNR is actually a tradition in their world, so it has an in-universe explanation, and it started from a war that ended almost 80 years ago. So, if Ozpin was born before the color naming tradition, he's at least around 80 years old.

Ozpin himself said that he has made more mistakes than any man, woman, and child on the planet. Glynda told Ironwood that Ozpin has experience the rest of them lack. It was interesting how Ozpin stated that the story of the Maidens was even around when he was a boy, and Pyrrha laughed and said "You're not that old, professor!"

So, we've been getting a lot of hints that Ozpin is incredibly old, possibly even older than most people tend to live.