Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-2.121.244.99-20160919002524/@comment-25936766-20160919201157

Alhazad2003 wrote: But if that was the case, why would Salem allow her "children" to act against her, knowingly or otherwise? I just can't see her letting them roam freely if they undermine her overall plans, more likely she'd take steps to keep them in check. I mentioned this to Mini some time ago: People act as if Salem was some omniscient god, when there's no reason to believe she is.

For all we know Salem, before being Grimm, did it with someone, had a child, and that child had children, and so on. Salem became a Grimm and thus either inmortal or extremely long-lived. But she cannot see nor know everything, she's not omniscient. So how would she even know who is and who isn't a descendant of hers?

So let's assume Qrow, Raven and Yang are descendants of hers. Salem doesn't even know they exist, and doesn't know they are her descendants. In the same way, they don't know Salem exist, or if they do, they don't know she's their ancestor.

It reminds me of a tale of Cu Chulainn, if I got the details right....at one point he had a son, and many years later he ended up killing him in battle, not knowing he was his son.

And besides, there was a SEW in Vale, and Salem seemingly did nothing to prevent her from ruining anything, not even a "just in case" step, even though a single one of them was enough to freeze the Dragon. She's obviously not all-knowing, all-seeing, moving each and every thread behind the scenes.