Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20180123171649/@comment-24994749-20180201200502

Sentry 616 wrote: Well an axe is a reasonable weapon to represent choice. It can serve as both a tool and a weapon.

That's a cool interpretation.

Another idea: maybe the Relic of Choice can split into two (like the Janus Key from Halo) and that's how Ozpin made it harder to find, by storing both halves separate. If you only have one half it's useless.

That, or maybe to get the real relic, you have to go through a test, like in that fable where the guy's axe falls to the lake/river and the deity offers him an axe of silver and then of gold, and because he rejects both he gets all three.