Salem

Salem is an ancient and mysterious figure from Remnant's forgotten past. She is one of the few who possesses the power of Magic and the master of the Grimm. She is also highly knowledgeable and experienced. She is the leader of her inner circle and operates out of Evernight Castle in the Land of Darkness. Her goals are to find the maidens and take their power to obtain the four relics from the huntsman academies and keep them away from Ozma as she fears he will call the Gods without a plan and let them destroy everything. She was also the indirect creator of the Beacons of Darkness, the ones who has the right to govern the world and also be able to defeat the Gods.

She was a part of the original Humanity, before being cursed with immortality and falling into a Grimm Pool. She was married to Ozma before their ideologies tore them apart making them mortal enemies.

'''This Salem is a different one from RWBY as she is an alternative version of herself in the alternative universe where the Beacons of Darkness exist. '''

Past
Eons ago, Salem was a human woman with fair skin, pale platinum blonde hair and light blue eyes. She wore most her hair 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. Most of her bangs were tied back, barring several large locks that framed her face to her left.

She wore a white, two piece dress consisting of a sleeveless, diagonally overlapping white backless pleated top with a raised, pale blue halter-top square collar adorned with an aquamarine colored rhombus-shaped crystal on the clavicle, surrounded by two smaller white rhombuses. Her long, high-waisted skirt was white with a faint purple tint - adorned with white diamond emblems and white wavy lines near the bottom hem, ruffled around the waist and completed with a purple sash. For accessories, she wore gray, circular earrings and a pair of dull brown bracers, and her long fingernails were painted pale lilac.

Original
Salem's skin is currently a deathly pallor, with jet black sclerae in her eyes, and glowing crimson irises that shine brighter when she is agitated. While she initially retained her half-bun hairdo for her now bleached, pale white hair, she has since re-styled it into a larger bun with six offshoots wrapped together that also suspends several obsidian-colored ornaments. Over the passage of time, she has since grown dark purple veins that line her face and arms, and now has a black diamond-shaped marking in the center of her forehead.

She currently wears a very long, short-sleeved black robe that obscures her feet and partially drags across the ground, with its distinctive feature being a curved high collar with dark red trim bordering the outer edge of a narrow window exposing her bust in a vertical ellipsis resembling an eye, and completed with a long shawl emblazoned with three interconnected, maroon-colored vertical elliptic sigils resembling a trio of overseeing eyes above a series of maroon-colored diamond emblems. She also wears a ring resembling a beetle on her right middle finger, which now have longer fingernails with jet-black nail polish.

Timeskip
Salem dons a new set of clothes. She now wears a long sleeved, black partially exposed "cold shoulder" robe, ending in middle finger loops, with red trim flowing from her raised collar, bordering through the vertical window exposing her bust, to the sides of her hips and three crimson stripes flowing all the way down to the bottom hem of her robe. Additionally, she has ornate, gunmetal-colored bone-like arm cuffs on her upper arms, and an elaborate, cross-shaped brooch with a rhombus-shaped ruby gemstone atop her clavicle, closing her outfit and forming the aforementioned slightly wider, diamond-shaped window. Completing her ensemble is a similar black cape with matching red trim, with a couple additional red gemstones hanging from her bun.

Personality
Even though she seems ruthless and have the only desire to posses all the power, truth is she worries dearly about the world's future, however she knows sacrifices are necessary so she doesn't doubt to kill thousands to fulfill her goal to keep the Gods away and don't let them destroy the world. She has high trust in the Beacons of the Darkness and her subordinates like the Inner Circle, she is able to keep the composure and chill even in the most stressing situations but she lose control when someone threat her children or talk to them in a no-friendly way, she also lost control when Allan was murdered. She regrets all the time she killed her first daughters when Ozma used them as a meat shield. She didn't want to but it was that or let Ozma bring destruction to the world with the relics by calling the Gods.

Magic
Salem, being a member of the first wave of Humanity has access to magic. She is shown to be able to fire large energy blasts from her hands, as well as generate electricity around her. In addition to her other magic, she is able to project telekinetic force as seen when she crushed a Nevermore and shattered the windows in her council chamber in a fit of uncontrolled rage. Furthermore, she possesses some form of superhuman strength, as she easily flips the massive table in her headquarters, all while seated. She also processes clairvoyance, as she is able to observe a battle going on through her crystal ball. She was also seen creating a massive storm cloud.

Salem was also cursed with immortality by the Gods, making it impossible to destroy her. When the God of Darkness vaporized all of Humanity, her immortality allowed her to remain unaffected. This was further shown during her battle with Ozma, where she was reduced to a pile of ash, before reforming and killing him. She has lived for thousands of years, during which she acquired extensive knowledge of the nature of Aura and Dust, as well as an understanding of Human nature, society and history. She also possesses knowledge on how to steal the powers of Maidens, a feat of which was never accomplished before according to Ozpin.

Grimm Powers
After the Gods destroyed the first Humanity and left Remnant she jumped into the Grimm Pools in the Land of Darkness which altered her body further and gave her more powers and abilities. She can command grimms to do her bidding. She possesses the ability to alter the physiology of Grimm and graft Grimm body parts to a Human's body. In addition, she has the ability to summon multiple Shadow Hands on command.

Weaknesses
None.