Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31098022-20170218174614/@comment-69.138.248.186-20170228204240

I meant his semblance/aura in comparsion to Ozpin's back when you compared their feats. I think the king used at least one Relic while Ozpin only used his semblance/aura against Cinder. This has the king looking more powerful than headmaster Ozpin.

Tyrian: He is Salem's go to person for tracking and abducting people. True, he didn't expect Qrow to attack him without a weapon.

Ozpin also told Blake she was one of the few that didn't previously attend a Huntsmen school and that only the exam mattered. So did someone make Jaune believe he needed a transcript or was it to cover his bases in case Glynda wanted to remove Jaune for not being skilled enough? Normally I'd say that Ruby is likely the Queen piece while Jaune is the King piece that (for now) needs to be protected. Still I do wonder if the "relics" at the exam were foreshadowing. Out of the eight students we see from the two teams only four get pieces. Yang, Nora, Ruby and Jaune. We see all of them choose the pieces. That two strength based people and two leaders.

How important is that scene? Was there a reason they were called Relics and like the real ones the number four comes up? I don't know who Ozpin thinks is expendable but I think that might be something that comes up down the line.

I do wonder how RT will write his family, They seem to be well meaning and loving. Do they really have no faith in him? Are they just overprotective? Or is there a very Ozpin like reason to keep Jaune away from the life of a Huntsman? Jaune didn't seem sad when Weiss asks who says he's a good leader, his mom? I think he just realized he didn't sound as smooth as he wanted once he mentioned his mom to Ruby. I don't think any of them are dead. He never sounds upset outside the no faith talk when he speaks of them.

I'm not sure what you mean by sample size.

Jaune's family knowing where he is: I just meant that I don't know if he went home after the fall of Beacon or they think he died during it. I think he was being honest about telling his family where he was. Curious that his dad didn't ask how he got in.

Getting in contact with Ruby: I'm not sure if communcation was bad in the area or not. I could see Qrow maybe giving JNR Pyrrha's stuff then suggesting they visit Ruby. If he did then Jaune really had a point about how Qrow was using Ruby.

The King giving up power: He might not have known what he would do in the next life but the Wizard life line always seems to come into some power. Being someone with a chess like mind helps in that respect. Ozpin didn't seem too concerned about what the council thought plus this was more of a long term plan. One that lasted 80 years where else the monarchy could of potentially died out quicker if Salem caused another conflict. As Qrow pointed out it's harder for her people to cause trouble in Atlas since their on high alert and Vacuo since their Vacuo. Their less predictible this way than they would be under their old system.

It might have been the safest of the options. Keeping all the Relics together was dangerous. Seperating them while promoting unity keeps Salem from gaining their power. Salem might not have known he had the Relics until he was forced to use them and that meant he had to hid them otherwise there would be another war on their hands. His family could have been used against him. We've seen with Lionheart that not everyone is trustworthy and it might only be a matter of time before a predecessor was betrayed or turned against him. For all we knew he did tell his family about it.

Of course this is all just guess work. It might have worked out or it might be one of Ozpin's many mistakes.