Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-128.151.150.18-20161013025548/@comment-4010415-20161013034655

1. Fire and lava can behave differently.

Fire - Can spread quickly, but can also be put out quickly, and once it's put out, it's totally gone.

Lava - Spreads more slowly, and if you get it on you, it's harder to get it off than fire. Once you "put it out" (cool it), it leaves behind a physical substance, which... I dunno if RT would go into this detail, but one of the dangers of traversing a volcanic field is that the black rock left behind by lava can contain obsidian in it, which is even sharper than a scalpel. So, you definitely don't wanna trip and fall when you're walking through a volcanic field.

2. Steam: Winter might have steam Dust in her rapier, considering she made a white cloudy cover while fighting Qrow, and there's a light blue component that was seen in the hilt of her rapier in a few shots.

3. Barrier: Could really just be "energy" overall and could be different depending on how you use it - those laserbeam things Weiss attacked the Nevermore with in Players and Pieces or a barrier. The thing is, the barriers that Weiss and Neo made both had the same shockwave effect as the colosseum's safety barrier. And I wouldn't exactly call gravity an "element" either, you know.

4. Well, alternatively, earth could have been changed to the darker more reddish-orange. There seem to be two shades of orange - darker red-orange and bright orange.