Talk:Ozpin/@comment-27801466-20160215103707/@comment-10390252-20160218141109

Ozpin is old and powerful. I suspect that Salem may be a contemporary, maybe enen kin.

I could make an argument for the possibility that Ozpin and Salem are both non-human (maybe the last surviving members of a pre-human civilisation native to Remnant). However, the bit in the Aura WoR makes it quite clear that demi-divine aura-mages are at least a possibility and Salem clearly identifies Ozpin as being in that number.

I'll make a suggestion: Salem and Ozpin are human but part of the pre-Kingdoms civilisation of Remannt. They may even be older than the ruined city we see in Players and Pieces. They may even be the last survivors of the Transhuman colonists who first came to Remant many thousands of years ago. Their ages aside, they have been playing a game of order vs. chaos and human vs Grimm for milllennia and this is but the latest round of their contest of will, wisdom and power.