Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151213162620/@comment-24994749-20151213182441

And apparently Ozpin is potentially thousands of years old? The hell? How'd he manage that?

From what the WoR on aura told us, aura training can give people abnormal lifespans.

I should have suspected. Not having a colour name wouldn't require him to be that old, as long as he was over 80 it would do. Perhaps closer to 100 to justify him not having taken/being given a new name to follow the colour tradition. There is people of those ages in our world and you would think, with Remnant being more technological advanced than us, lifespans would be longer. And so it didn't make sense that such a big deal was made about his age.

But if we are talking about thousands of years old... then it is a big deal.

I don't think Ozpin is the old man in the story, perhaps a relative who heard the story from him as a child, and thus started the order to protect the maidens.