Salem

Salem is an ancient, mysterious figure from Remnant's forgotten past and the primary antagonist of RWBY.

She is the protagonist of The Girl in the Tower, a fairy tale which details her early life.

In ancient times, Salem was a woman with fair skin, pale platinum blonde hair and light blue eyes. She wore most of 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, a pair of dull brown bracers, and a thin leather strip that holds the same crystal over the sash. Her long fingernails were painted pale lilac. If noticed carefully, she also has on faint purple heeled flats obscured by the skirt.

In the distant past, Salem was shown to be a kind yet lonely woman but appeared to be slightly manipulative. This was shown when her beloved Ozma died of an illness, leading her to attempt to trick the Gods into bring him back. She did the same to Humanity to turn them against their creators, only for it to fail. After she jumped into the Pools of Grimm, she gained a destructive nature.

Salem wields powerful magic that can defeat most foes. Hers spells range from elemental to more subtle stuff. She also carries a scepter to focus her magic and use as a melee weapon when needed.