Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.247.91.107-20140511154823/@comment-11188061-20150329144720

I agree. If Team RWBY is the hero of the present, Ozpin should be the hero of the past. I got the feeling that his story is similar to Emiya from F/SN - Emiya's heroic story should've ended when he died upholding his ideals, but instead he became a cleaner who's forced in an endless cycle to correct the balance of the world. He may be all powerful as part of the force of the universe, but he lost his humanity - or rather his existence as a living being - which is the absolute requirement to actually affect one's fate and even create miracles.

I got the feeling that Ozpin is the same. He is hinted to be beyond human, which is pretty much the same as losing his humanity. More akin to a force of nature, he can make amazing things and display extreme feats of power; but at the same time there may be simple things, even something like leaving Vale/Beacon that he cannot do.