User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V5E7 - The Gang is Back (almost) - Impressions/Recap/@comment-34633327-20171130003444

I think the interesting thing about Ozpin's Finite powers is that by Proxy, the Maiden's powers are Finite. Unless they can somehow generate more power like an eternal battery, the Maiden Powers and the Branwen Shifts should both be limited in power too.

And that we may have an asnwer to just what happened to the Relic of Choice. Back in Of Runaways and Stowaways, Salem was pretty peeved that the Relic was missing, and with the revelation they were in vaults, I, aswell as several others, wondered just what Oz did with the Relic of Choice then. Was the vault empty to begin with? Did he move the actual vault? But this episode seems to imply Ozpin opened the Vault with his own powers. Since the Maiden's powers are portions of his own, and the Maiden's powers are required to open up the Vault the Relic is stored in, by Proxy, Ozpin's powers should work as a skeleton key for each Vault, meaning Ozpin may have opened the vault for the Relic of Choice, and hid it somewhere else...... in plain sight.

I think the Relic of Choice is actually his Cane. Notice the importance Ozpin seemed to put on having his cane, making Qrow take it after Ozpin died, making Oscar pretty much say "Gimme back my cane" when he met Qrow, if it was just a weapon, it wouldn't have been such a big deal since Ozpin could have built a new one. As for why he would keep it on him rather than the vault, if the enemy doesn't know what the Relic looks like, then its the perfect chance to hide it in plain site, since they'll think its just an ordinary cane. This way in the event the Vault is actually compromised, Ozpin will have still managed to save the Relic.

Then remember that the V3 commentary says the cane "Stores Time". Time is a broad term, but it also a record of a person's life, of the choices they've made, and the choices they will make. I think his cane allows the ability of Precognition, but not a single timeline, multiple timelines. It would allow the wielder to see the choices they could make, what each one would entail, and then decide which is the most prefferable. These Relics are left by Gods afterall, so Precognition wouldn't be outside the realm of godly powers. And that would be how having choice is dangerous. Creation and Destruction are obvious enough, and Knowledge is power, but Choice would allow someone to see all the choices they'd make, and in turn influence the choices of others based on their own choices. In a sense, it actually gives the wielder the Ultimate Choice, while stripping their foes of any true choice.