Talk:Great War/@comment-38621229-20190224192257/@comment-38621229-20190225145214

Have they showed the origins of the Maidens at all? I ask because I only started watching RWBY about two weeks ago and blew threw all the episodes quickly, so there may be things I'm missing/don't recall. As I understand it,  the relationship between the Maidens and Ozma/Salem's daughters is entirely conjecture, at this point. And if it is true there is a connection then Ozpin was, in fact, lying to RWBY when he simply said he gave his power to four young women in the hopes they would improve the world. At the very least, he left out important information. I don't think that Ozpin "always lies". In fact, I don't think that he lies that much at all. But I do think that he has been shown to be highly selective with what he shares. So, he probably did give his power to four young women in the hopes they would use their powers for good, but I also suspect there was more to it than that. My earlier point was simply that giving away so much of his power was a pretty dramatic and potentially very disadvantageous thing to do, given his ongoing struggle with Salem, who must now be much more powerful than him. So, I find it unlikely he just gave away his power for sentimental reasons. He has been fighting a war for millennia; I assume that thinking strategically must be hardwired into him by now.