Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-79.130.76.49-20160326124244/@comment-410526-20160326210616

Urano23 wrote: To be fair, they were presented as being this super powerful entities that makes Ozpin's group really uneasy. And the fact that the four maidens link perfectly with Team RWBY makes it even easier to tie. Yeah, I'm not saying it's totally unfounded to ascribe a lot of significance to the Maidens. When they were first introduced in V3E6, I actually thought they'd be central to the series from that point onwards. It's only after we were introduced to the silver-eyed warriors in V3E12 that I started reconsidering how important the Maidens would be.

People keep trying to predict which characters are Maidens, but much like Amber, I doubt the other 3 Maidens will be very significant, and I also doubt previously-established characters will be revealed to be Maidens all along. A lot of fan-theories are based on "wouldn't it be cool if..." and linking unconnected things together rather than thinking of what would constitute good storytelling (another example is the "Qrow = Ruby's dad" theory or any of the now-debunked "Cinder = someone's mom theories").