Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170918133425/@comment-26018514-20170923074359

ChishioKunrin wrote: One thing is that the bug on Salem's finger looks entirely different than the beetle from the glove. They even appear to be two different insects altogether. The bug from the glove is a beetle that even has a hard shell, and like I said, Phantomlink pointed out that the bug on Salem's finger looks like a tick.

I prefer to think that the "tick" itself is a vessel, that Salem herself is an old hat at this Game... Like Durzo Blint's Ex from Brent Week's Night Angel trilogy,  He's just that powerful from an artifact, while she used what she had to become almost better than that(revered as a god pantheon)

Effectively, that Salem was a researcher investigating the Grimm's origins, found ways to manipulate the life-form, knew about Ozpin, and found a way to replicate his immortality/ressurection using Grimm as the intermediary.