Talk:Ozpin/@comment-67.61.140.52-20160521035518/@comment-26397825-20160521051323

You know who also lived in isolation on top of a hill?

Marcus Black, Mercury's dad.

The tie becomes stronger once you realise that Cinder specifically went looking for him, and we don't know the reason why other than 'he was an assassin'. There is always the possibility the wizard's family fell into the darker side of things and eventually became the Black family, which is why Cinder knew of them in the first place and where to start looking for them.

Just offering this as an alternative theory to Taiyang.