Talk:Maidens/@comment-28171999-20180507173846/@comment-33528551-20180721135745

The relics, gods, Ozpin, Salem, and the whole shadow war existed since the beginning. That stuff was created right after Team RWBY themselves. So, getting rid of them is impossible as THEY ARE TEAM RWBY's STORY.

And that story includes the maidens. Given the story, we can say the maidens replaced "relic guardians" in the original scripts. And thus were always a part of the main story as well. This is where we get the "RWBY are future maidens" theories from.