Talk:Salem/@comment-26073173-20170319013007/@comment-4010415-20170319195309

The thing is, it would take a hell of a lot longer than just 80 years (the Great War ended only 80 years before volumes 1-3) for people to forget that the Maidens are real. It takes time for something to fade into mere legend. Not to mention that Glynda said that the truth about the Maidens goes against "hundreds of years of Human history and religion." Meaning that the existence of the Maidens may have been pushed into obscurity hundreds of years ago.

I still think the reason Salem focuses that kind of hatred on Ozpin is simply because he is her arch nemesis from standing against her for centuries or even millennia, as he technically doesn't die and vanish from the living world the way that other people do. The people who have fought against her efforts come and go pretty often for her, but Ozpin has been there for a long time, refusing to go down.