Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33692480-20171118205801

So i was wondering on why people that know the truth about Ozpin hate him so much, now we know that he has had multiple iterations but the question is still there, so after learning about Raven´s and Crow transformation I release something:

Ozpin’s sin is not just have failed in stopping Salem but even more disturbing, creating Salem.

We know that the relics where given to the humans by the deity brothers and is stated that having all of them gives you enough power to change the world, my theory revolves around the statement that thousands of years before RWBY´s story Ozpin and Salem searched for the relics and obtained while looking for power, and if the relics do have enough power to change the world, they decided to create magic in Remnant (or obtained just for themselves), I don’t know if the dust and semblance where a part of that but at least the two of them where given enough power to do wonders and then the relics where lost again. (That´s why Ozpin is so powerful and can turn people into ravens like he did in Qrow and Raven)

But something went wrong and Salem was corrupted, she blamed Ozpin for turning both into monsters, she into some kind of dark lord maybe infused with traces of the destruction and creation relics, so she created the creatures of grim to wipe humanity and take revenge from Ozpin (representing the Wicked Witch of the west) while Ozpin was with the traces of knowledge and choice.

Many years passed and Salem induced terror in humanity, the regret and despair grew in a coward and lost Ozpin that abandoned humanity for centuries, he had no way or purpose until he met the maidens and recover his hope in humanity, realizing that maybe he couldn’t fight Salem but humanity had the right to fight for themselves, he gave a the higher part of his magic to the maidens, a power that will pass from human to human giving a tool to fight against Salem, the last traces of the choice relic that he charged and with his left power he turned into an eternal soul that will pass from host to host, keeping his past memories to guide humanity (as the false king that the Wizard of Oz is), the last traces of the knowledge relic.

With that the race to find the relics another time started, Ozpin with the help of the maidens and vast knowledge found the relics and created the battle academies after many years and made sure that they never get into the hands of Salem or anyone, locking them into vaults that only the maidens representing the human’s choice had the power to release.

Salem grew in power and desperation to obtain the relics and started to associate with humans, telling them the truth about the relic’s powers and promising them the power to change the world, so people like Cinder with a dark past and thirst for a great power joined in.

What Cinder calls Ozpin’s great arrogance is having the four relics and being capable of change the world or undo what he has done but not doing it, but Oz is convinced that nobody should play god again after what he and Salem did, only humanity has the right to decide for the fate of the world but the relic’s power can’t be at the will of people in the seek of power again.

So, what do you think?

  