Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-67.140.221.67-20160930231239/@comment-25936766-20161002170258

67.140.218.123 wrote: Even though they haven't said anything, hasn't the show itself basically proven orange dust is lava? The stuff Cinder shoots at Glynda in episode 1 behaves like lava, and Cinder makes obsidian with it. That's pretty cut and dry. There are problems with that however. Besides what 73 said:

1-There's the chance you can make Lava by using Fire Dust, either alone or alongside Earth/Stone Dust (granted, it would technically be Magma in that case, but there's hardly a difference).

2-Because of the introduction of Maidens into the plan, even if what Cinder used to make Lava in ep1 was Dust, it may have been silently retconned into being a result of what she managed to take of Amber's powers.

3-Lava may be an independent element, like Steam, or may be simply a stronger version of Fire.

4-There are 2 orange Dust types. One is bright, the other not so much. Both appear in ep1 IIRC. We don't know which one is what.

It would still be nice to know if the different Dust elements can have multiple versions of varying strength and color, even if they don't say Lava Dust exists.