Talk:Salem/History/@comment-34242760-20180106221321

So something that I like about this series is how many of the characters are allusions to various historical, mythological, and fictitious figures. RWBY and JNPR being the prime examples of such. I'm sure it's probably been posited by someone before, but what if Ozpin and Salem are allusions to Adam and Eve (or Lilith)? Perhaps they were the very first Humans created by the Brother Deities?

There's very little information to go on at this point, beyond both being several millenia old and very much conscious of one another. We also know that Ozpin was cursed with an eternal cycle of reincarnation because he failed to stop Salem at some point in the past. Since the reveal that Ozpin was the old Wizard who gifted the Maidens with their powers, I've always wondered how and why he failed to stop her. Maybe it wasn't due to him lacking the power to do so...maybe it was him being unwilling to physically harm her? Or, like in the story of Adam and Eve, he willingly partook in whatever he was supposed to stop her from doing? Thus the Gods cursed him with reincarnation until he rectified their mistake?

The fruit of forbidden knowledge in this scenario would probably be usage of the Relics. Ozpin was apparently in possession of all four at some point or another, seeing as they are housed in the Huntsman Academies which he helped to found. The four Relics, when used together, are supposed to grant one the power to change the world. Why wouldn't he have used them to stop Salem if his own powers weren't enough? Or maybe they were used, and they were what granted Ozpin and Salem their respective abilities?

Anyway, this is all speculation and probably way off base. I'm not fully caught up with the series yet either, so I may have missed details that totally destroy this theory.