Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27121579-20160104011025/@comment-4010415-20160106053205

Spiegelmeister wrote: Hey Chish, what's your take on these arrow explosions? From what I can tell, I never see any dust on them or in them, and they look a lot like the portals used by raven and the tick grimm. I might need to look at them closer, but I don't think they're glass either. Thoughts?

Also, though dust and the main story were worked out before V1, didn't Miles and/or Kerry mention (i think in a livestream or maybe afterbuzz?) that the maiden thing was a relatively new direction that "Monty wanted to try out"? It could be that maiden's hadn't been established before V1E1, and thus we can't use it for much of anything to speculate on at this point. It looks to me like the arrows are metal. It's entirely possible that Cinder used them as focal points to more easily create explosions in three places at once, much like how Glynda tends to use her crop to focus her telekinesis and Weiss sometimes uses Myrtenaster to focus her glyph creation.

Unfortunately, I haven't been keeping up with interviews and such. I should really catch up.