Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4441317-20151014022905/@comment-25555436-20151014023719

....You could just go to RT's Q&A on Facebook and ask just that. Otherwise, we can only tell you what we know, or at least what I know:

-Dust is elemental energy. Pure fire, Pure Ice, Pure lightning, blah blah blah. Having a Fire Dust crystal in your hand is kind of like having a torch in your hand from which you can pull out Fire and burn things with it, for example.

-It does not transform into the element when activated. When activated, it releases said element. Like emptying a bottle of water.

-It needs to be close, in some way. Your clothes, your body, on the magazine of the gun you're holding, to give some examples.

-Hunters can't generate their own Dust, that would be suicidal. But they can use their Aura to activate Dust. I suppose that those that do infuse Dust into themselves could generate said element, but it still sounds suicidal to me. I wouldn't want fire constantly burning my veins and flesh from the inside.

-Cinder uses Dust clothing. That's where her Dust is "stored", and from where she can pull the energy to perform all the burning attacks she does.