Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151129182644/@comment-4010415-20151130221113

Zoboso wrote: This just begs the question: how did cinder know what Nora's semblance is? Same way she knows what Pyrrha's Semblance is. She had Mercury and Emerald find out everything they could about the competitors in Volume 2. They weren't only talking about Pyrrha, considering Emerald said "And finally, Pyrrha Nikos."

I guess the list is for them to keep track of who they wanted to arrange matchups and biomes around.