Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20151129182644/@comment-5217560-20151129193611

Winter was referring to all the aspects of their Glyphs, not just summoning. She just happened to focus on summoning, because of Weiss' difficulty with it I think. Also, going by what P-money said, "you have your glyphs", coupled with the similarity in asthetics between Weiss and Winter's glyphs, I think it's safe to say that the Schnee semblance is indeed glyphs. Glyphs with multiple functions and a certain look. Shadow is right, they are OP as heck.

Perhaps the glyphs Glynda and Cinder used are some generic dust technique manifestations? Similar to how Weiss uses ice dust to produce objects, when her semblance itself could be used for such a task. Maybe those who aren't Schnee have to use Dust glyphs for certain effects.