Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-10390252-20141117111619

If Raven does have a Dark Apprentice whose actions are significant and will be part of the narritive, I expect to hear about them. Otherwise I suspect that we'll probably hear nothing about who taught her to fight and who, if anyone, she taught in turn.

Some have pointed out that Raven's portal effect looked a little like the 'dark orb' from the two openings. I wonder if, possibly, there may be a 'dark magic' version of Aura manipulation, possibly based on more animal-like emotions and a more primal mindset. These lead to Semblances with more overtly and obviously destructive applications. The problem is that, by tapping into the darker part of the human or faunus soul, you put yourself at risk of being consumed by the darkness.

Maybe Raven's reason for abandoning her family was due to the dark nature of her particular path of mastering her Aura; she was afraid it might corrupt her daughter (of course, as Semblances can be partially heredetary, so are the dark/light balances - Yang has problems with her dark anyway, problems that might have been mitigated if she'd had her mother's influence and guidence from a young age).

I'm also wondering if we're going to have a Big Bad (to whom Cinder is merely the Dragon) who has gone a long, long way down that path. Someone whose aura and, consequently, soul are so dark that everything they do is selfish and cruel.

Huh... Actually, I'll have to see if I can knock together a blog about this.