Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26025032-20181220181531/@comment-26018514-20181222192748

Salem doesn't "win" this. Salem's goals are to destroy all of humanity and to die herself, possibly not wanting the latter as much anymore.

Because of this, summoning the gods by bringing the relics together is a path she can take to accomplish her goals so long as humanity is not "worthy", but it is still possibly her plan B. Ozpin's goals are the same, but he actually has compassion for humanity and wants the gods to give a passing grade, the only thing he's lost hope of is accomplishing this while Salem lives, as well as killing/stopping her.