Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14640999-20140724024429/@comment-14640999-20140812211620

its not "magic" :P its just applied energies manipulated through more capable use of the body that humans from not-RWBY dont have control over. Like that thing abotu "what would humans be capable of if we could use 100% of our brain". Although tbh I think a lot of the questions about how the ssytems work etc will be answered when further material is released. (RWBY has to put in a lot more effort than Eragon books to get stuff explained unfortunately)