Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-66.87.120.108-20150303155657/@comment-4010415-20150321002237

There is no brown Dust, and we haven't actually seen any black Dust.

The four naturally-occurring colors are red, blue, green, and yellow.

The rest of the colors are


 * Cyan


 * White


 * Purple


 * Possibly two different shades of orange

I've written a whole blog post about speculation about Dust.

Mixing Dust

I think it's entirely possible that what effect a new type of Dust has will have nothing to do with what kinds of Dust were mixed to make it. We shouldn't limit our theories to "Red and blue makes purple, so red Dust and blue Dust makes purple Dust, and therefore purple Dust does has this effect because of the effects red and blue Dust have."

What each color does

We've been outright told what green Dust does, and it's been made pretty clear what red, blue, and yellow Dust does.


 * Red = Fire


 * Blue (yes, dark blue) = Ice


 * Yellow = Lightning


 * Green = Wind

Evidence for what red, blue, and yellow do is in the scene where Ruby sneezed on Dust. The Dust in the air around her was red, blue, and yellow, and it resulted in a fiery explosion with ice crystals and volts of electricity.

Plus, in the first episode, one of the henchmen asked for "burn, uncut" and was handed a red Dust crystal, even more evidence that red is fire.

In World of Remnant: Dust, we see someone pick up a yellow Dust crystal (yes, that was supposed to be yellow, not brown) and use it to summon lightning, more evidence that yellow is lightning.

My theories for what other colors do

I think Cinder uses orange Dust, and my theory is that orange Dust (or, at least, one shade of orange, if there are two shades) is lava. Now, hear me out.

In the very first episode, when Glynda blocked Cinder's attack, it splattered onto the ground behind her, as if it was liquid.

Ruby said the swords Cinder used in Dance Dance Infiltration were made of glass. They were black. Obsidian is black glass that is formed after volcanic eruptions, and Cinder formed those swords with some kind of "fire." I think it was lava, not fire. Plus, whenever she used the Dust in her clothing in Dance Dance Infiltration, it glowed orange, not red.

So, I think a good guess for orange Dust is lava. It would certainly be pretty cool.

As for cyan Dust... We've seen Neo and Weiss create a circular shield that has waves of cyan circles go across it when it's struck. I haven't been able to figure out what kind of element that would count as, but I really think that these shields are an effect of Dust. I think for Neo, the Dust was expelled from the hole in the top of her umbrella. For Weiss, we saw her use Myrtenaster to draw a circle in the air before the White Fang lieutenant hit that circle.

So, there's cyan Dust.

I don't really have theories for the other colors...

I guess we'd have to look at the Dust clip Weiss gave Blake to try to figure out the stone and darkness-like thing. The clip had


 * Red


 * Blue


 * Yellow


 * White


 * Purple


 * Cyan

From what we could see. And no, that dark spot is not "black Dust." If you rewatch that part and pay attention, you'll see it's an empty spot where she could've put another vial of Dust.

I guess the purple Dust is the darkness-like clone Blake did. That would leave white for the stone clone, which doesn't make much sense. Maybe Weiss is covering another color with her thumb? Or maybe white really is stone.