Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24278127-20131211040442

-Glyphs

If glyph's are Weiss' semblance, should we assume that Weiss is the only one capable of using glyphs? If she is indeed the only one who can use glyphs, that seems to be quite a waste to me, as thats like saying shes the only one in the world who can cast a certain class of magic...which is wasted potential in my opinion. It just limits everything to Weiss even though there are going to be multiple mages...Or it turns out she's a legendary hero mage of some sort. Which would be cliche.

It also doesn't make sense. Because if her semblance is glyphs, and semblances are unique, then where would she be able to learn those said glyphs? From herself? But glyphs in their origin are elements of ''writing. ''Something that is taught from one person to the next through studies, teaching, etc. Unless she taught herself? Despite only her semblance being glyphs?

So she's using writing that only she can use? Despite the essence of writing being a form of communication? Then where would she learn from? Unless Monty is going for the cheesy "I just kinda always knew" deus ex machina, I highly doubt she hid herself in a library at some point and just conincidentally found a set of characters capable of utilizing magic. Because its unique to her and is essentially in her language as she's the only one who can use it. Who would write the books?

If such books existed, does that mean someone else prior to Weiss was able to use glyphs? But it's Weiss' semblance.  