Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20161230201819/@comment-26397825-20170121030654

The difference between people who need dust and Maidens is that Dust is activated and controlled by aura. Maidens don't need any aura at all to use the elements; even after Amber's aura broke she was still flinging tornadoes around. A Dust user would have to manually activate the dust like Roman did to use it after their aura broke.