Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7472785-20130908092917/@comment-23784953-20130908115028

Orange Kiwi wrote: For visual indicators, the page for Dust says that those glowing circles appear when someone uses a lot of it, and for Aura, the person glows. One of Glynda's attacks had her glowing, then flinging a purplish light thing at the sky, which exploded with one of those glowing circles, blurring the line between Dust and Aura a bit if we go with those indicators.

There was a discussion about Weiss being tired by creating that line of circles. We know that Dust is mined, and Aura comes from the soul. Using a device powered by a battery the way that (we assume) Dust powers things won't tire you out. If it does turn out that Maki is right and Aura activates Dust, then that means anything Dust-powered is also soul-powered. (Unless s/he's [Maki, I really don't know which I should refer to you with, sorry] only referring to when they're used in combat.) Generally, I assume that all Dust mages use their Aura to cast spells. Crimson is the best example since she didn't have any weapon.

Though, I'd only say the whole "Aura is the fire to ignite Dust" theory only applies to Dust mages. (I'm a guy btw)