Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160225225013/@comment-14138255-20160301221639

What if....Salem and Ozpin were both in a sort of alternate dimension of some kind and they both are vying in a sort of game over Remnant. They can't entirely appear at full strength, but they can act by proxies. Ozpin found a way to impart himself onto a human (perhaps the old wizard, who might have been his very first proxy, and thus effectively became Ozpin), while Salem acts through weaker but more numerous agents (Cinder and the Grimm, maybe Raven). Everyone and everything in Remnant is just a chess piecein their game, and whoever loses dies. So either Salem wins and darkness reigns while Ozpin burns, or Ozpin wins and eradicates Salem and her evil from the world.

I'm just going to stop before I start overthinking things, but if this is true (which it most likely won't) Ozpin got a little attached to his pieces.