Thread:99.45.171.100/@comment-27404492-20170406212527/@comment-4010415-20170406233612

It could better if we adjust the wording on these pages to say that Salem seeks to weaken mankind by snuffing out their hope and to take the four Relics from the academies so she can change the world.

Divide definitely suggests that she intends for at least a lot of mankind to die:

"It was you who ended their lives Made them to dig their own graves With your dark, sick, cruel design Convinced them their world could be saved" - Suggesting that what Ozpin is trying to do is save the world, but Salem believes he can't do it

But the songs tend to offer insight that the show unfortunately doesn't. For example, It's My Turn giving us insight on Weiss' past with Jacques, and From Shadows telling us about the Faunus and the White Fang before volume 1 even began.