Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28307002-20170702192455/@comment-17758905-20170703115947

I've had a thought like this: What if it's not actually the beam that does the damage but the SEW? Looking at Cinder, her gouge marks look like X's cut out of her body, plus only portions of her body are scarred instead of the entire thing. If the beam of white light was the damaging force, then it probably should've burned most of her body instead of parts of it, unless her aura is (for some reason) more plentiful over certain areas of the body. Even if it went after the Grimm in her body, it should've pierced a hole straight for the grimm, or destroyed different areas of the body unless that thing was festering in her eyes.

The dragon being frozen is the hardest thing for me to explain. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps it turns to stone after sustaining too much damage to make it invincible.

However, Qrow said Ruby did a number on the dragon, implying there was an indication of the dragon being harmed in some way. If the beam only turned it to stone, there's no reason for him to say she did a number on it, because otherwise she didn't do a number on it. She froze it, which incapacitated it, but she didn't do a number on it.

Another potential idea though is maybe the SEW powers do freeze Grimm, but also power up the warriors.

Furthermore, I want to talk about that whole "Cinder's allergic to SEWs because of her Grimm Glove." What Salem said was:

"But your newfound strength brings with it a crippling weakness"

That's implying that the glove has nothing to do with it. Instead, it's saying that the strength itself comes with the weakness, or that Maiden Powers are inherently allergic to SEWs.

Though my main point is this: We really do not know as much about Silver-Eyed Warriors as we think we do. All of this was more for the sake of "what if we're full of it" and "how much are we sure we're not full of it"?