Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-36446807-20180803045826/@comment-14909251-20180805225518

BlizzardDragon wrote: 7. A. That story is bullshit to begin with due to one thing: The Wizard's reasoning. The story says the Wizard gave them the powers so they would be able to share them with Remnant and help people. Except those powers just happen to be the very powers needed to open a specific set of doors holding artifacts of power, and everyone with an idea they exist and their mothers want them for themselves. Would be a pretty big lapse in judgement to not only give four random teenagers the powers of gods and not expect someone to want them themself, while also making these four nomadic sisters the keys to unlocking four gifts from the gods. Glynda herself even said they were hunted in the quote above. It was indicated the Hunter Academies were established after the Great War and a relic stored at each. Unless the vaults already existed and Academies built on top of them, it is most likely the case that before this the relics were handled differently. Very likely that they were essentially free-roaming in a sense with no fixed owner. At the end point of the Great War the King of Vale, supposedly the previous person Ozpin occupied, created a New World Order so to speak. He built that order in such a manner that he essentially commands the main military institutions of the Kingdoms.

Compared to before, it would appear this is the point at which he has had the most control. What this means at the very least is that Ozpin was previously not in a position where he could restrict access to the relics without taking possession of them himself or putting them under control of any organization or government he might command. So it is most likely the case the relics were not all under his control in every other incarnation. It could be the aftermath of the Great War was the first time he had effective control of all the relics. Basically, access to the relics was not a reason for him to give the Maidens powers.