Ozma is also cautioned that Salem is still alive but not as the woman he once loved. But if they return and find humanity to be as immature as before, they will destroy Remnant. If the gods return to Remnant and find that Ozma is successful, they will peacefully live among humans once again. The tale shifts to Ozma’s POV as he awakens in a realm between worlds, where the God of Light tasks him with being reincarnated in Remnant and uniting not only the regrowing population of humanity but also the Relics of Creation, Destruction, Knowledge, and Choice. She plunges into the Pools of Grimm, where she first met the God of Darkness, believing its poisons can take away her immortality, but instead they transform her into “a being of infinite life with a desire for pure destruction.” Now she has the white skin, white hair, and red scoriae with which we’re familiar, although her face lacks the red markings. Salem is left to aimlessly wander the empty world, infuriated at the gods for the loss of her love, unable to take responsibility for her actions.

Second, when the gods exit this universe and leave it godless, the God of Darkness shoots into the sky as a beam and pierces the moon in the process that’s why it has always appeared as being partially fragmented in previous volumes. First, the God of Light mentions that this world is a “remnant” of its original form, explaining the origin of the name. This is a great story point because it explains two things that I have always been curious about in RWBY. However, the ensuing battle leads to the God of Darkness obliterating all of humanity except Salem. This motivates her to travel through the kingdoms and sway their denizens into joining her army by claiming that she stole her immortality from the gods. Failing to commit suicide, becoming even more furious, she realizes that the gods are fallible, since she was able to lie to them and turn them against each other for a time. The God of Light reveals that it was his rejection of Salem’s request that drove her to the God of Darkness, which convinces him to destroy Ozma.Īs a punishment for Salem’s hubris, the gods drop her into the Fountain of Life so that she becomes infused with immortality and therefore can never rejoin Ozma in the afterlife. He accepts her pleas - she avoided bringing up her trip to the God of Light - and brings Ozma back to life, but the God of Light arrives and briefly fights his brother, the two of them transformed into dragons. Desperate, she heads to his brother next, the God of Darkness, a horned humanoid of pure purple goop at a horrid-looking place filled with the Creatures of Grimm.

He refuses, claiming that it would upset the cycle of life and death. This drives Salem to head to the God of Light, an antlered humanoid of pure yellow luminescence, and beg him to revive Ozma. The deep love between Salem and Ozma ends prematurely when he dies from an unspecified illness. This is the only part of the episode I take issue with, being an all-too-popular plot device for Disney Princess movies and other similar stories at least it isn’t a cruel stepmother. It focuses on a brave man named Ozma - Ozpin’s first incarnation - who rescues Salem, a woman who can manipulate magic, from the castle in which her cruel father imprisoned her.

“The Lost Fable” is the third episode in RWBY: Volume 6 and lasts for twenty-six and a half minutes, picking up from the previous episode, “Uncovered.” Jinn, the omniscient spirit in the Relic of Knowledge, continues to narrate her tale of an ancient and idyllic era in the world of Remnant. (SPOILER ALERT: This is a full breakdown review, so do not read it if you want to watch the episode beforehand) “The Lost Fable” succeeds in this field by presenting a rounded perspective on Salem’s downward spiral from a freedom-loving young woman to an immortal entity with a pure desire for destruction. I firmly believe that a story can either shine or collapse on the integrity and empathic quality of the antagonist’s backstory.

Fable and spirit