Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-35667002-20181117193420/@comment-27745396-20181121170740

Honestly, Ozpin telling us that he created the Maiden's can be taken in so many ways.

In one way, it can mean that he created the Maidens by fathering them and the current Maidens are actually his and Salem's kids, cursed in the same limbo as their father, but luckily (as far as we know) not remembering their past lives.

Second way you could take it, is that Ozpin gave part of his own powers to the four girls who reminded him of his daughters. This would explain why the current Ozma7Ozpin is so much weaker than at the beginning of his mission. In this version, the daughters are still technically "the original Maidens" but not as literally as in the first case.

The third possibility is a bit far fetched, but in theory, Ozma might have been able to save part of his daughters soul/aura/whatever (or they survived naturally because of their cursed parents but weren't able to regenerate) and somehow gave it to the four girls he met during his hermit days. The progress was probably hard and took away the majority of Ozmapin's magic.

Or if you want to take a very dark turn; Ozma captured the girls in the story and tried to use them to bring his daughters back from death but failed.