Talk:Glynda Goodwitch/@comment-2600:8806:4904:D600:5191:8E8E:996E:DF1C-20170925140631/@comment-4010415-20170925201209

Also, the Maidens were not an idea until after Volume 2 was made, so everything Cinder was seen doing in Volumes 1 and 2 were originally Dust and Aura, not magic.

Though, of course, they always planned for magic to exist in RWBY; it's just that Monty did not come up with the Maidens until after they finished making Volume 2. Still, like Spirited said, the things Glynda did can be explained with Aura and the fact that they were still figuring things out in early Volume 1. Hell, they were still figuring Dust out when Monty made the White Trailer. In the White Trailer, he had red Dust be used to deflect an attack, but in the series proper, red Dust produces fire.