Talk:Divide/@comment-193.63.86.25-20160425122830/@comment-27397283-20160502025811

I, personally, think that Ozpin, at one time, worked with Salem and helped her advance her vision of the world, and something made him realize that what he was doing with Salem was wrong. For this to be the case, Ozpin would need to be significantly older than we've been lead to believe.

After Ozpin's betrayal, Salem, who would not have been as powerful at that point, would have confronted him, and after failing to turn Salem from the evil of her ways, he is forced to fight his former partner. An epic battle would insue, with Ozpin eventually standing as the victor, presuming Salem's death. He would go on to spend the rest of his life, trying to make right all the mistakes he made in the world, and, from the background, was instrumental in the founding of the four Huntsman Academies. All the while, Salem would be hiding in the shadows, gaining strength, watching all that Ozpin built, and plotting her vengeance. She would eventually find an eager follower in a young woman named Cinder Fall, who she would teach to fight and indoctrinate her to mirror her own view of the world. Then, she would send Cinder to steal the Fall Maiden's power and spark the war that would bring the destruction of Ozpin's own fortress, Beacon Academy, and severing the trust between Kingdoms that the Huntsmen and Huntresses of Remnant fought so hard to build. I believe that, sometime before the events of Volume 1, Salem made herself known to Ozpin, and warned him that she was going to bring war upon him, and that there would be nothing he or his students could do about it.

Lastly, I believe that Ozpin survived the battle with Cinder, and escaped. Either he became like Yang, his will broken, or he's planning his own counter-offensive, and will reveal himself to the embattled world with a plan to save Remnant once and for all from mankind's destruction.