Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27397283-20160214182542/@comment-216.185.251.228-20160623035146

68.197.16.124 wrote: I agree with the potential of the silver eyed warriors being a name for the sucessors of the OG maidens. This or the potential for Ruby to be both a maiden (I'm still not sure which I think she is given the possibility that she is one) and a silver eyed warrior. In my opinion, the idea that the SEWs are the Winter Maidens doesn't work, simply due to the fact that the silver eyed powers can be possessed by multiple people simultaneously. While Ruby may not have awakened her powers until Pyrha's death, there's nothing to suggest that they weren't dormant within her from birth, while Summer possessed them at the same time. Likewise, while it wasn't stated outright, it's certainly probable that, in the time of the legends Qrow told Ruby about, there were multiple SEWs existing at the same time. After all, while he did say it was a rare trait, that's hardly the same as there only being one in existence at any given point in time- that, after allm, would be a unique trait, not simply rare. Of course, that doesn't mean that Summer couldn't have been a maiden as well, nor does it mean that, if she were, she couldn't have passed those powers on to Ruby when she died. But, while it's possible that the two of them were/are both SEWs and maidens, they are very much separate powers.