Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171123054740/@comment-34633327-20171125170319

Slowly ever so slowly my bingo card fills more and more up

It was sweet seeing the guys just hang out and reflect.

I can already hear Someone going "This episode merely restated what we already figured out ages ago, nothing new, too short, only important scene was the end". Sigh.

Speaking of which though, Nora had so many funny scenes this episode, and so many comments they made being reflections of the FNDM: Did you let her (Rich Bitch) have it? Don't remind me (Jaune). Ever notice when Ren talks he always says something deep? How could you (Jaune) lose the map then?

Weird Yang's arm has a Rocket Application/Jettison Function. How is that practical?

Finally Mercury and Emerald take center stage again, and they got their lines! And Shitty McDouche Bandit is going to be trashed again.

My head hurts trying to figure out just how this Salem and Ozpin plot works. Confirmed Ozpin was the wizard. Confirmed Maiden powers used to be his. Maiden powers unlock Relics. By Proxy, Ozpin's powers unlock Relics. The Relics were hidden in the Schools to stop Salem from getting them. The relics were left by the gods when they abandoned Remnant. Salem wants the maidens to get to the Relics. By proxy she wants Ozpin's Powers to get the Relics. The Gods punished Ozpin for not stopping her.

So with all this, this means that somehow after leaving the Relics, Salem showed up, and the Gods made Ozpin try to stop her. He failed so he was cursed with reincarnation. In one of his incarnations, he split his power upon 4 maidens, then in another Reincarnation, the King of Vale built the academies to hide the Relics. At some point during all this, he formed the Ozluminati for several generations in hopes of hiding the Maidens, and then became the Ozpin we know. He then brought STRQ into his circle, then turned the Branwen's into birds (Dude's got a sense of humor, making them into their namesakes).

Here is where the headache comes in. The Maiden's are said to be what unlocks the Relics, so conversely, they are probably what locked the relics. Yet Ozpin, as the King of Vale, only hid the Relics in the Academies about 80 years ago, long after the Maiden powers had been scattered, and long after Salem had been trying to claim then. 1st, how was he defending the Relics then before hand? And 2nd, unless he spent weeks hunting down four random women, how did he lock the relics in the academies? Did he use his own power to lock them up? ......Actually, that would explain why the hell Salem can't find Beacon's relic. Maybe his Cane really is the Relic of Choice that somehow "Stores Time" and Ozpin kept it on him as an extra measure of guarding it. But if it is his own power, wouldn't Salem only need take his power like she had Cinder take Autumns in order to make the skeleton key equivalent of powers to unlock the relics.

Another thing confusing is that Ozcar said Ozpin's power is '''finite. '''It has a definative limit. But the Maiden Powers come from him. So unless he had unlimited power before giving the Maiden's their powers, which somehow turned something with no limit into something with a limit while letting the other four have no limit, wouldn't that mean the Maiden powers are '''also finite? '''If so, then the Maiden's are a lot less powerful in that their power will eventually run out. Even if it is passed on and on, it will eventually drain out.