Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-25405817-20151005211146/@comment-25396609-20151006194451

Dust is, for lack of a better description, crystalized mana.

Right now we have only seen it used for the purpose of raw damage, and not what non-combat uses the may have.

I'm not saying it isn't pure elemental energy, because it is. What I'm saying is: how do the classical elements of magic apply in Remnant? The answer is we don't know for sure, we have evidence that they are the simplest form (as with the toa elements in Bionicle), but we do not have conclusive proof they are limited to those functions.