Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171123054740/@comment-34633327-20171126111500

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Yeah...but there's a difference between helping to build them - as in, lending a hand, providing support or manpower or money - and being the one to get the ball rolling and taking the credit like the King did.

Predecessor could mean the previous Headmaster, or it could mean the previous incarnation of Ozpin.

Look, I'm fully on board with Ozpin being the old King of Vale. It makes sense to me. But I just don't know if we have enough concrete evidence to go adding it to the "Past Ozpins" section of his page. True, its better to leave it off for now until we can get more direct confirmation.

But hey, same thing happened with the Wizard theory when the only things we had to go on were the Maiden WOR Ozpin narrated, that Ozpin said it was his favorite tale when he was young, and that Ozpin was based on the Wizard of Oz. Sometimes the smallest of hints can spawn the greater theories and still turn out to be right in the long run.

.....Or we could just as likely to be overthinking it and Ozpin's former incarnation could just have been one of the Generals of the King, and the King was in on the Salem plan much like the Current Headmaster's are.

So yeah, let's leave it off until we get direct confirmation.