Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20160216041923/@comment-1894551-20160216054945

Nightmarrionette wrote: True but the most common use of froze and frozen refer to ice and snow. (but your thing could be possible)

Also her being the Winter Maiden or having some of the Maiden's power explains why everything turns white. It is all being frozen over in some kind of magical bizzard. Occam's Razor my friend. Learn how to use it.

It is very clear that the Grimm Dragon is not frozen in Ice. It's more than likely Taiyang and Qrow only used the word "Froze" and "Frozen" because there is no other way to properly describe it's condition. I speculatedmyself on a youtube comment that the most likely scenario is that Ruby simply wasn't strong enough to kill the Grimm Dragon, and instead simply wounded it to the point it had to go into hibernation (recall how it was sleeping inside the mountain).

Further Ruby's "eye wings" in no way looked like Ice or Snow. I should know, living in Alaska. "But it's obviously stylized" Well, in response to that I point out Weiss. The Ice Effects she creates look nothing like what Ruby does. "But Maiden Powers!" In response to that I point out that the flames Cinder created with Fire Dust look identical to the flames she creates as the Fall Maiden.