Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-5047068-20140615190405/@comment-3146930-20140616180914

BenRG wrote: Captain logic1928 wrote: So if her glyphs are basically an extension of her self, does that mean those runes one the edges translate into something. The art team probably just designed them randomly to look like some kind of mystic script but, yes, I wouldn't be surprised that, if the story decides it, they will turn out to mean something. Maybe a mantra of some sort that Weiss uses as part of meditation/aura focussing exercises.

If you look at Glynda and Cinder's Glyphs, they also have symbols and such around the edges, but their Glyphs do much different things (storm clouds and incineration respectively). The symbols could just be a reflection of what the Glyph's purpose is, sort of like the transmutation circles from Full Metal Alchemist or maybe they take the place of magic words.