User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative author: Ozpin, the great and powerful/@comment-11188061-20140831032147

Meh, I already made my speculations at the threads and my own blog.

1) Ozpin's 'made more mistakes than any person in the planet' can be interpreted as, he has lived longer than anyone else. If that is true, then the only way possible for this to happen is Dust.

2) If 1) is true, then he is basically dead man walking. While he is powered by Dust he is near invincible, but 'Take away that power' and you're left with a man who's nothing but a dying shell.

3) I've already deduced that he is a hard man prior to founding Beacon (or his current philosophy). He is the major force who contributed to the world's current peace, but in return paid a price so high that his philosophy changed entirely. He's like an Emiya Kiritsugu who obtained the Holy Grail only to find that it's a sham, and the entire city has to die along with his mistakes.

4) The incident changed him and all of his followers during the time. Most of them followed him to Beacon: Glynda, Oobleck, Port. Qrow (and maybe Summer Rose?) and a few people worked independently to aid Ozpin where he cannot influence things. Some of them still believed in Ozpin's old philosophy (Ironwood), except that he thinks relying on just the Hunters' strength and belief alone will never be enough to overturn the grim reality.

Some of them broke the other way around - where Ozpin turned to peace, they turned to war and seeked revenge against the society who refused to help themselves, and ultimately contributed to the tragedy that changed them all. Such a person is Cinder.