Talk:Maidens/@comment-25110963-20160208073457/@comment-26397825-20160208074224

And I repeat; why the need for secrecy if they're unbeatable? Eventually it would spread that a Maiden is unkillable and people would stop trying to much, limiting the attempts to once in a blue moon. And this would pose no problems for the Maidens, so they would have no reason to go into hiding they they did.

However, they did get hunted, and there was reason for concern to keep the power out of the hands of unsavoury individuals who would hunt them down to get their powers, which implies that there must have been at least a few who were killed and their powers were transferred to their adversary, and so they went into hiding to stop future occurances of their power being stolen by unsavoury individuals. This is all explained by Ozpin and Co.