Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-4010415-20151212205259

I'm just saying, it's hinted that Cinder stole part of Amber's Power of Autumn, and we've seen Cinder use rune rings, not just to obliterate debris, but also to change her outfit (albeit, the outfit could've been made mostly of obsidian or something).

Glynda made a magic circle to block the explosion of the Dust crystal, so that could still be explained as a super maxed out Aura shield. But a magic circle appeared in the sky when she made the hail storm. That could be explained as part of her Semblance, but... eh...

That's the problem, it can be mostly explained, but then you have the fact that this magical season Maidens thing is meant to be kept secret, so if Glynda is the Winter Maiden, she would want to keep it on the downlow by doing things that could be explained in other ways. Episode 1 was the only time we've seen Glynda create magic circles, but we saw Cinder make her rune rings in Volume 2.

Blaaaah.