Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-201.141.215.22-20171102135802

We don't know exactly what Salem wants but we do know that she needs the relics and Qrow said that whoever holds all four of them can change the world. So it's safe to assume that's what she needs to achieve her goal but why is her image of a new world a bad thing? During Qrow's explanation, the person holding the four relics was surrounded by Grimm which implies he thinks that Salem will create a world ruled by Grimm hence why it won't end well. But is that really what Salem wants? To destroy life and happiness itself and replace it with monsters and fear?

I don't buy it. Why? Because she has loyal followers and, with the exception of Tyrian, none of them strike me as martyrs who want to help Salem destroy the world and then gladly go down with it. Cinder wants power and once she gets it she will pay it back to Salem by dying for her? Hazel seems to hate unnecessary deaths and is an honorable guy yet he's supporting a monster who wants to eradicate all life from Remnant? And while we don't know much about Watts he strikes me as the Mercury kind of character. The kind who is doing it for his own goals.

Another thing is that the world of Remnant is already a horrible place to live in. Whenever people were not killing Grimm, they were killing each other and Salem seems to understand mankind enough to figure out she doesn't need to move a finger. They will continue to destroy each other. Half of them came from a god of darkness after all.

So the question is: Does Salem really wants to turn the world into something even worst than what it already is? Or is she after something more reasonable that Ozpin simply doesn't agrees with? 