Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-6500074-20130829103240/@comment-14909251-20140214054822

Well, my oft-stated theory on this is that Ozpin had just been engaged in a spiriutal stand-off with the Big Bad akin to Aragorn staring into the palantir to confront Sauron. The narration at the beginning of the pilot would be an instance of him having one of those spiritual stand-offs.