Talk:Great War/@comment-38621229-20190224192257/@comment-38621229-20190226104635

Thanks for the clarification. I was rewatching "The Lost Fable" and was clearly left with the impression that Ozma was around for a very, very long time. Jinn said he spent "many lives" in mourning or trying to forget his mission. The bit about Glynda saying the Maidens had been around thousands of years is a welcome addition to the discussion. I only watched that episode once, so that slipped by. I will check it out again. I've been thinking about the other reasons Ozma may have sacrificed so much of his power to create the Maidens and one answer that occurs to me is that he wanted them to help him find the relics. After all, until he located the Lamp of Knowledge, he had no way to know where the relics were. Maybe he decided he needed helpers who could help him scour the world and he realized they would need the power to protect themselves, so he gave them each a considerable part of his magical ability. To me, that would make the risk he is taking far more understandable and it serves a necessary strategic purpose, especially since Salem obviously had her agents out looking for the relics too. I enjoy speculating on this; I read somewhere that Marty Oum had left about 12 volumes worth of material for the story and I think that the details of the plot have been worked out fairly well (at least I hope so!) For me, the little breadcrumbs the story has dropped are fascinating. For example, what was the one question that Ozpin asked Jinn within the past 100 years? That has to be significant. As an aside, I've noticed many people making the point that Ozpin's question to Jinn was "how do I destroy Salem?", elicting her response of "YOU can't". This suggests, of course, that someone other than Ozpin could. However, I think that is too easy and obvious. This is something that certainly would occur to Ozpin. Depending on how long he has had the lamp, I imagine he has asked variations of the same question several times. I think that Salem is simply unkillable. She is either going to be stopped by the gods returning or by her finally understanding the meaning of life and death.