I'm not sure that the ring has much to tempt Salem with to be honest. She's already absurdly powerful and doesn't really need more power. Sauron being portrayed as this uber psychic also doesn't feel right. To control men he needed them to put on his rings that were connected to his Master...
I'm not sure that the ring has much to tempt Salem with to be honest. She's already absurdly powerful and doesn't really need more power.
So did Gandalf and Galadriel, guess why neither of them wants to touch The Ring?
Sauron being portrayed as this uber psychic also doesn't feel right. To control men he needed them to put on his rings that were connected to his Master Ring, to manipulate dwarves he had to make them wear his rings but they were too stubborn and it failed (though the rings did lead them to ruin).
... HE LITERALLY PUT A HUGE CHUNK OF HIS POWER AND BEING INTO THE RING, YOU FUCKING DONKEY! No shit, he will need The Ring to make up for that when he literally did that.
Same with elves which failed even worse.
Yeah because they knew about him and what he did and stayed the fuck away!
He is, or rather was skilled at manipulating people with words but so is Salem (she even orchestrated a Fall of Numeror style event just like he did) and she's been in the manipulation game just as long as he has.
No she didn't, Cinder did(Hell, you can say
RWBY helped orchestrate the Fall of Atlas more than Salem did) all of the heavy lifting. Salem literally just talked trash to Ironwood, then basically died for 2 hours and by the time she returned, Cinder did everything and Salem did jackshit. Hell, Salem's entire posse are literally dying or killing themselves due to easily being shown something different or working for CINDER instead.
Salem's personal combat skills are still at a scratching the surface stage, but there is every reason to assume that she's at least as powerful (and should be something more like 4x more powerful) as Cinder Fall, who can create ludicrously hot fireballs:
No, no, no, no. We have seen how Salem fights in RWBY and she fights like absolute hot ass:
Sauron would beat the ever living shit out of her, don't compare her to Cinder and act like "She's stronger than her" when she never displayed an iota of it when she wanted to get Oscar back!
She's ambitious but she's also like the platonic ideal of spiteful defiance. If she realizes that the Ring is trying to fuck with her head she might just try to destroy it out of spite.
>Salem is the platonic ideal of spiteful defiance
>Salem would destroy the Ring out of spite
>The Ring literally works off of ambition
>Salem seriously wants to die