Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-26499992-20160802131126/@comment-27350660-20160904165342

The maidens may have been a later addittion, but maybe the writers themselves had left it open as to why Raven left, something to be filled in later. You don't necessarily need to put in all the plot in chronological order. When I started writing my WoWfic, I sort of had in mind that the heroine was "of humble origins", a house servant or some such. Didn't flesh that out until much later. The story isn't set in stone till the episode airs.

The Maidens are sort of natural spirits. We've seen Amber use wind, frost. That doesn't sit comfortably with me, compared to Raven's teleportation skills. That just feels more "arcane" to me. So if she turns out to be a Maiden, then I'd think she could already teleport and shape-shift before that.

Raven's portals do seem similar to the glove Cinder used to rip out Amber's powers, but it was an artifact Cinder had been given, possibly by Salem, for the very purpose of stealing the Maiden's powers. It was obviously one-use-only. Where it came from is anyone's guess.