Talk:Salem/@comment-35941743-20190907032213/@comment-35434444-20190908082437

73.Anon.52

I call it regeneration, but it isn't clear what happened after the explosion that destroyed her castle. Ozpin seemed to make it out in one piece and yet he was as close to the focus of the blast as Salem was.

All that is apparent it is that it is specifically a property of Salem's body that makes her indestructible and that a condition of her punishment is that she must be free to roam the surface of Remnant. If she could become afflicted with cancer, it would eventually fall apart and that's not allowed. Her mind however is exempt from this, leaving her in a far more severe mental state than Ozpin because he is permitted the temporary reprieve of death between each of his reincarnations.

For this reason I suspect that Salem was actually unharmed by the explosion like Ozpin was, but became trapped under the rubble since her magic was temporarily expended in the fight. Thus the curse ejected her to the surface.

Far from surprised by this she immediately resumes her attack, so it's probably happened many times before.