Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27121579-20160104011025/@comment-173.200.7.205-20160105233549

Here's my 2 cents about the maidens and their OP powers. We don't know alot about the maiden's powers. Is Maiden a part of existing powers, except largely boosted, or is it part of unknown "magic" as Ozpin puts it?

Currently, we have 3 sources of "power" that the characters use for combat: Physical ability, aura/soul (semblance is a prefered way to utilize this power), and dust.

Physical ability is just normal endurance and strength. This is unlikely to be the source for maiden power.

Aura is a manifestation of the soul, which we have seen being used for force fielding, or more advanced techniques such as Ren's head blasting or Glynda's picking up objects (I think she surrounds the objects with force fields to support them). Thus, aura is turning "spiritual" power into physical power. By physical, I mean creating seemingly solid "objects", not changing the qualities of objects (temperature, speed, position) as we see Amber do. There is also semblance, a prefered way of using aura, however, all semblance either augment physical power (Nora, Yang, Ruby) or create physical objects (Blake, Sun). The only semblance known to be able to change the position of objects is Pyrrah, which is possibly why she was picked to be the next Fall Maiden.

Dust is the least known of the 3 power sources, but it seems to be able to replicate Ambers powers. However, to do so, you need to spend gallons of dust a minute just to keep up with her. Dust can change the qualities of objects, however, it is unknown how it does so.

Maiden = crap ton of dust