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{{salem}} is an ancient immortal human Grimm woman with skin the pallor of death, long and pure white hair, and red eyes with black sclerae. Her eyes shines red when she gets agitated. Most of her hair is in a half up-done bun style with a small, simple bun on the top, and the remainder of her long, straight hair hanging at the bottom. She wears a long pitch-black dress with red lining {{salem}} was a part of the original Humanity, before being cursed with immortality and falling into a Grimm Pool. The original Humanity was wiped out by the Brother gods following an attempt from {{salem}} to lead them against the gods, which failed. Since then, the gods left Remnant, and {{salem}} is the only survivor of the original Mankind. {{salem}} is the only person left on Remnant who possesses magic, the new Humanity who eventually appeared having none. {{salem}} also has the power to command the Grimm {{salem}} is immortal, and cannot die. She hates her immortality, as she has nothing left in the world and it stops her from rejoining Ozma in the afterlife. She tried to kill herself many times before giving up. The new Humanity is only barely aware of {{salem}} existence, knowing her as a rumored, reclused living witch deep in the woods. For an old cottage that nobody ever goes to, {{salem}} home is in surprisingly good condition. {{salem}} lives aimlessly, without objectives but to merely exists while time passes. {{salem}} does not know how much time she spent on Remnant between the old Humanity's extinction and the beginning of the new Humanity. All she knows is that too much time passed to be able to not lose track of it. {{salem}} doesn't feel much of a connexion with the new Humanity, although she ahs no issue recognizing them as resourceful and cleverly

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{{salem}} has grown dark purple veins that line her face and arms, and now has a black diamond-shaped marking in the center of her forehead. Her hair is bleached pale white which she has styled it in a large bun with six offshoots wrapped together. {{salem}} has spent eons on Remnant, and this she seeks to end her immortality, by any means necessary. Such as bringing the relics together so that the twin gods deem the world unworthy, which would destroy the world and kill her. {{salem}} was cursed with immortality and cannot die. {{salem}} is a powerful individual capable of both wielding Magic and controlling the Grimm. Because of this, she is undoubtedly the greatest threat to walk Remnant. Her underlings consist of Cinder Fall, Hazel Rainart, Tyrian Callows and Arthur Watts. Jaune arc is {{salems}} secret grandson,

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{{salem}} lives alone in her little cottage, deep in the woods. {{salem}} is a cunning woman, and highly knowledgeable. {{salem}} walked upon the face of Remnant for ages, before the new Humanity surfaced. Time has left {{salem}} bitter and cynical, due to much emotional pain and feeling like the Brother gods were unfair to her. All she wanted from them was to have her dead lover, the hero Ozma, returned to her. {{salem}} dislikes having visitors, and prefers to be left alone. {{Salem considers that the reason why the new Humanity is struggling so much in this world is that the Brother gods literally abandoned it.}} {{Salem hates the gods. When she asked them to revive Ozma, they repeatedly resurrected and killed him in front of her, and then cursed her with immortality.}}

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Due to her being so ancient, {{salem}} has learned to be very patient. Before losing Ozma and being cursed with immortality, {{salem}} was raised as a princess, and grew up knowing royal manners and protocols, although she has little uses for these anymore.

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{{salem}} skin is a deathly white color, covered with deep red and purple veins that run up her arms and face The sclera of {{salem}} eyes are jet black and her irises are red, and while extremely angry or using magic, her eyes have been shown to glow. She has a black, diamond-shaped marking in the center of her forehead. {{salem}} wears a very long black cloak with red designs resembling eyes. The designs bear a striking visual resemblance to the markings found on Cinder's glove it is assumed to be her emblem {{salem}} has pale moon white hair formed into a bun with six offshoots from which ornaments are suspended

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In contrast, {{salem}} is also shown to possess a fair and collegial attitude towards her allies, giving credit where credit is due and showing genuine appreciation to those who are loyal. In enforcing this atmosphere of fairness, she also discourages unnecessary malignance and cruelty amongst her associates. When Tyrian Callows returns after having failed to capture Ruby Rose, she merely tells him that he disappointed her and walks away. She is also seen tolerating her allies' unruly behavior to some extent, such as Tyrian's manic tendencies and Watts' snide and condescending attitude. However, {{salem}} is not above losing her temper, as she is particularly demanding when inquiring whether Cinder has truly killed Ozpin or not. She later became angry with Lionheart after he started to become less afraid of her and be more outspoken in her presence. Salem, on the other hand, as shown in Volume 6, will lose her temper at the mere mention of Ozpin, showing that her hatred for him has gotten worse and worse as time goes on. Upon learning from Hazel that he is still alive and has tasked Team RWBY to deliver the Relic of Knowledge to Atlas causes her to let out a primal scream that shatters the windows of her room

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Both Qrow and Raven describe {{salem}} as someone who would make use of anybody to help further her goals, something Salem herself suggests when explaining her decisions to Cinder. Raven states that she would then discard the people uses if they become obsolete to her. {{salem}} is actively seeking out the Relics left behind by the brother gods. Her current goal is to acquire all four Relics as well as the power of the four Maidens, needed to unlock the chambers containing the Relics In the past, {{Salem}} was shown to be a kind yet lonely woman. However, her manipulative streak and desire for happiness lead to her making the mistakes that would doom humanity when her lover Ozma, whom she became slightly obsessed with, died of an illness, as she tried tricking The Gods to bring him back and then later tricked Humanity to turn against them, only for both to fail. After she jumped into the Pools of Grimm in another suicide attempt, she gained a destructive nature

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During {{salem}} arrival in Atlas she wears a similar dress but the red lines extend further down the dress, and she also wears a necklace of some sort and arm guards. Salem is a highly insidious and manipulative individual who patiently moves to undermine and destroy her enemies with cold and deliberate resolve. She is also shown to be highly intellectual, with a healthy respect for her enemy, mankind, which she recognizes as possessing both resourcefulness and ingenuity. She also acknowledges humanity's capacity to draw strength from hope, but she uses this knowledge to think of new ways to subvert and destroy them. She is humble enough to recognize that there are limits to her abilities and that she can only do so much for her subordinates. {{salem}} is very confident and self-assured, however, but not selfish; she is secure in her knowledge that she can best whatever Ozpin sends to stop her and her goals. She also appears to be cruel or sadistic or both, for she seems to relish the prospect of watching Ozpin burn

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Despite this, however, {{salem}} at that time still possessed some of her humanity, as when she and Ozma reunited, she was shown to be truly happy and {{salem}} was shown to be a genuinely kind and loving mother to her daughters. However, when Ozma betrayed her and tried to take their daughters away from her, {{salem}} became so infuriated that she murdered Ozma and accidentally their daughters in a rage. The destruction of the family they had clearly greatly contributed to her hatred towards Ozma, to the point where when Ozpin comes in, her usual cold ruthlessness and calm composure would swiftly turn into rage and cruelty: She visibly relishes when she learned that Ozpin was killed and stated that she will destroy him, but only after she destroyed everything he did and swiftly lose her temper upon learning from Hazel that he is still alive and has tasked Team RWBY to deliver the Relic of Knowledge to Atlas causes her to let out a primal scream that shatters the windows of her room

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When they finally reunited, {{salem}} took time to mock Ozma for his choice of a vessel and Oscar pretending to have fully become Ozma was enough to make {{salem}} furiously grab his head to make it clear she can see through his lies and she seems to take pleasure in torturing Oscar. When Ozma emerged from Oscar finally, Salem was visibly pleased that she could force him to watch as she destroys Atlas and took time to mock him that he was too late. However, {{salem}} seems to still have some affection for Ozma, which even borders on possessiveness, as she calls him "My Ozma" and asks if he has nothing to say to her. Although she considers Ozma as arrogant, that doesn't seem to prevent her from having respect for Ozma's intellect and how he was able to persist against her for so long despite her immortality, as she respectfully conversed with him over humanity, was not surprised when Oscar stated he knew nothing about the Relic of Choice, and despite easily seeing through his lies that the Lamp is out of question, complimented Oscar's ability to come up with lies in a blink of an eye, stating she can see why Ozma chose Oscar. She also conjured smoky images of her daughters, suggesting that Salem still has lingering feelings for them and their deaths may be the main reason of her hatred towards Ozma

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It is later revealed, however, that {{salem}} plans now involve a new desire to simply die. As Ozma noted, while she may have once dreamed of ruling the world together for eternity with the reincarnating Ozma and her family, the destruction of their kingdom and the deaths of her daughters as well as the many centuries she has lived, surrounded with people she only considers pawns and unable to let go of the grief and pain she had felt over the tragic destruction of the one chance she had for happiness, have removed any such desire from {{salem}} and she was simply projecting a facade of wanting to remake the world but in truth all she desperately wants is to be released from her curse to finally die. Her drive to finally rest and all that she had suffered had reached such levels to where she is fully willing to divide humanity completely so the Gods will see mankind as irredeemable and destroy Remnant with herself along with it. In fact, {{salem}} even shows apparent and genuine joy at the prospect of finally dying to where she would sing while attacking Atlas

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{{salem}} later on expresses a belief that Remnant is a broken ruined world, showing how tired she is of living in such a world, and shows a mixture of pity and anger towards Ozma for his defiance of her and her desire to die and apparently be reunited with their children and maybe even him once his reincarnation ends, commenting how the once mighty and powerful warrior that she fell in love with had weakened himself for what she believed to be nothing before angrily asking why does he keep opposing her. {{salem}} as the member of the first wave of humanity, has access to magic, which has seemingly only been amplified by her immersion in the Pools of the Grimm and her curse. With Ozma, the only other remaining member of the first humans, having given much portions of his magic to the Maidens, and the Gods having left Remnant, {{salem}} magical power currently is unmatched. She can create energy blasts and beams capable of torturing but not killing others, which she used to torture Oscar

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{{salem}} as the member of the first wave of humanity, has access to magic, which has seemingly only been amplified by her immersion in the Pools of the Grimm and her curse. With Ozma, the only other remaining member of the first humans, having given much portions of his magic to the Maidens, and the Gods having left Remnant, {{salem}} magical power currently is unmatched. She can create energy blasts and beams capable of torturing but not killing others, which she used to torture Oscar. She is able to exert a powerful telekinetic force capable of easily crushing a Nevermore and shattering the windows of her council room in an uncontrolled rage. She can use two forms of clairvoyance, able to observe battles through her crystal ball and also conjure an image of Atlas. She is also capable of powerful elemental magic, as she can generate fire and electricity and conjures a massive storm cloud to mask her fleet as she attacks Atlas, which acts as a barrier capable of shooting out anything close. At one point, she conjures shadowy images of her daughters.

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{{Immortality Having been cursed by immortality by the Gods, {{salem}} is immortal, making it impossible to destroy her. Not even the Grimm's Pool was able to destroy her and destroying her body and killing her will only cause her to resurrect, completely healed, regardless of how much damage she sustains. As Ozpin stated and {{salem}} herself believes, the only way for Salem to die is for the Gods to revoke her immortality and kill her themselves. {{salem}} stays "gone" for the max of a few hours if severely/brutally killed; Hazel confirms this. And the finale of Volume 8 shows her slowly and literally pulling herself together after being blasted to atoms by Oscar. Superhuman Physical Prowess

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Seemingly due to the power of the Grimm Pool empowering her, {{salem}} displays inhuman levels of physical strength, speed, endurance and durability, even without her immortality. This was shown when she easily upturned a table with a single hand and was able to effortlessly catch up to and restrain Emerald despite the distance between them before she could react and was completely unfazed by the punches of the considerably strong Yang and besides recovering from the explosions Yang set on her, she showed absolutely no pain over having dozens of bombs go off half of her body and easily restrained her with one hand once she got a grip on her. Even a magical beam from Oscar only dealt minimum non-lasting pain on her, with {{salem}} proceeding to easily threw Yang at him with enough force to knock them down. She also withstood being punched by Hazel with enough force to launch her off her feet with no damage, even able to position herself accordingly to land on her feet, and was able to grab and slam Hazel repeatedly to the ground

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Grimm Powers Because she threw herself into the Grimm's Pool, {{salem}} is the Grimm's master. As such, she can command them to do her bidding and even create them from the pools of black liquid outside of her home. Noted by Qrow Branwen to have done extensive modifications to the Grimm and even described as having created things that are fear itself, {{salem}} possesses the capability to experiment with the Grimm to modify them, as she causes Beringels to sprout wings and transforms a Faunus into the Hound as an experiment, resulting in it being extremely intelligent. She can generate and manipulate Grimm Liquid at will without needing the pools of Grimm Liquid from the Land of Darkness, seemingly able to conjure the substance on her own, as she breaks Atlas's defenses with it and would proceed to use the Liquid to spawn countless Grimm}}

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{{salem}} can also summon Shadow Hands, an ability which she creatively uses in battle by summoning dozens of them from the ground in an instant to restrain her opponents and can also spawn them from her hand directly to grab and pull them to her, as shown when she paralyzes Hazel, Oscar, Yang, Ren, and Jaune with multiple Shadow Hands and pulls Yang to her. She also gives Cinder the arm of a Grimm, which can steal the powers of Maidens, a feat of which was never accomplished before according to Ozpin's group. She also proves capable of controlling the Arm to cause Cinder pain if she disobeys her. Intelligence {{salem}} has always been an incredibly manipulative and cunning individual: She was even able to trick the God of Darkness to bring back Ozma for her, even convincing him to fight the God of Light for him, and the Dark God only realized the truth when his brother revealed how{{salem}}went to him first

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Manipulation Her centuries of experience has allowed Salem near-perfect control over anyone she wishes to serve her. Needing humans to subtly breakdown the unity of the kingdoms,{{salem}} finds people displeased with their lives and hating the world; though Tyrian follows her because of Salem's endgame. To this end, she tricks them into believing only she can grant their wishes; getting the loyalty of Cinder Fall, Arthur Watts, Hazel Reinhardt and Mercury Black by promising them their dreams. However, as the series progresses, {{salem}} loses her grip on Cinder, Hazel and Mercury; Cinder is only using {{salem}}, Hazel realizes he's been tricked and Mercury started to have second thoughts.}}

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deep down, underneath all the hate and rage, {{salem}} is still kind caring and loving and even faithful and loyal. even submissive, like a woman should be. but she will never be those things for ozma/ozpin ever again, not after he betrayed her}}

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{{salem}} is crushing on/interested in? her descendent/grandson jaune arc? evidenced by her keeping tabs on him. since tyrain told her about him in a report

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