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I think you're taking the 'Emerald is into Cinder' theory a little too literally. Base minimum she idealizes her and looks up to her.

As for Salem, I wonder if she has some sort of Godhand level reality warping powers (like being able to crumple people into a little bloody ball that becomes so small it disappears, defying the laws of matter conservation), only not being over powered by virtue of the relics vastly dwarfing her.