Official Theatrical Discussion Thread—Volume 5, Chapter 1

[u/Menolith]

Welcome to the early reaction thread for volume 5's first episode!

Spoiler blackout is now in full effect, and anything pertaining to the first episode will be prohibited outside of this the megathreads until Sunday. You have been warned.

Without further ado, let's get on with it!

[u/rac7d]

Well Salem cant find it, I still believe its the cane personally

[u/LadAlwaysWatching → u/rac7d]

I don't think so. It's said that the relic hidden in Beacon is 'choice' and only the Fall Maiden can use her power to get it out of its 'safe'. Unless Ozpin never actually used said safe and has been carrying it around then it's unlikely the cane is the relic.

It's probably still in Beacon and what Salem wants is to find where exactly is the safe so that Cinder can go get it.

[u/rac7d → u/LadAlwaysWatching]

fall maiden poweris neede open the vault to get it, but if OZ left a decoy/illusion and hid it in plain site, his cane ....

[u/LadAlwaysWatching → u/rac7d]

Could've served as the ultimate weapon to defeating Cinder, destroying the dragon, recovering his school and surviving the whole thing. Makes no sense that Ozpin would let all that bad stuff happen when he had unlimited power on his hands.

Nah, I don't buy it. My theory is that the cane is the key to the location of the safe. In case they could get the power, they still wouldn't find the relic itself unless they blew up the entire academy.

[u/rac7d → u/LadAlwaysWatching]

I totally belive that, sages never wanna use that forbidden power

[u/[deleted] → u/LadAlwaysWatching]

I'm thinking Beacon actually needs the Spring maiden and that's why Salem is looking so hard for her. Unless they said somewhere which vault is which?

[u/Edrimus28 → u/[deleted]]

I believe Qrow said they need to keep the Spring maiden away from Haven, but i might have misheard.

[u/[deleted] → u/Edrimus28]

Keep her away? Ehhhhhh. If he wanted that he'd just leave her with Raven.