Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131110184853/@comment-11188061-20131114034121

Well, here's a few hunches (been having those a lot lately) that I have:

1) Cinder's fires are unnatural in some ways, at the very least. It could be the fuel (Dust...?), of it could be the resulting fire. It just doesn't feel like a... Semblance, I don't know why. I'm missing something that I feel like I should know.

2) The objective of gathering so much Dusts. The common theories here are: 1, to start a war or 2, to attain great power; or 3, destroy/monopolize them all so that mankind no longer has Dust in their power.

3) Roman desires for power, and he works with Cinder to obtain it. One of the reasons for his desires, I suspect, is his rivalry with Ozpin - it's likely no coincidence that they're using a similar weapon. There's likely a promise between the Cinder and him that as soon as Roman completes whatever job he's doing, she would grant him the secrets.

Also, I'm offering a few other theories as to why Roman is gathering Dust. I remember a game called Endless Space (incredibly, its currency is also called Dust, and it also gives strange powers to beings). Here are some of the victory conditions involving them.

For one, if you control over X number of Dust, you automatically win the game as your economy is so strong the entire universe are forced to bow down to you - not to mention that Dust is a strange substance that can grant people near limitless power, as it did to the pioneer species called 'Endless' before they destroyed themselves.

Another one is a unique victory condition when you play as the race 'Harmony' - As a Harmony, you discover that Dusts are toxic to your existence, as it literally forces your usually immaterial and immortal lifeform to gain a solid body that can be destroyed. As a Harmony, this meant being forever tainted and bound, never able to return to become as one with the Universe ever again.

And thus the victory condition for the Harmony race is to eliminate every single Dust possible in existence.