Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-1860621-20140815015907/@comment-24267097-20140817053537

all this speculation on energy transfer is making me think her sembalence is based on thermodynamics. Thermodynamics is the subsection of physics that describes heat and energy transfer which between Ruby's comment and Yang's fire fits Yang pretty well. Heat is kinetic energy on an atomic scale, so as a guess not all the energy can be redirected so it cets released as heat in the form of fire.

Other stuff of note: air is not a good conductor of heat which prevents it's energy from affecting Yang's sembalence, also kinetic energy is based on mass which air molecules do not have a lot of.

TLDR: I think Yang's sembalence is based on redirecting kinetic energy