Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160419024928/@comment-26397825-20160428014617

This is going to be a really late addition to old conversations, but I was asleep.

On the subject of dust; Ice is not a main type. It's actually a compound dust made from Air and Water, despite it being everywhere and sort of shown in show as one of the main types simply because of how often you see it. This was revealed in a Livestream a while ago.

I'm not a fan of Lightning being just Air and Fire, personally, since the hot air and cold air need an external source of static electricity to create lightning when they meet - either from the earth (which, lightning travels from the clouds to the earth, but we see the charge that goes from the earth to the clouds) or from the water in the clouds itself. So personally, I would say Fire, Air and Water creates Lightning, since they are the three constant components in both forms of lightning; hot air, cold air and clouds, which are condensed water.

And no one ever said they could only mix two dust types together. They can mix all four base dust types to make more combinations. And combinaton dust types could be found naturally in places where different dust deposits are found together; so it occurs naturally by the different dust deposits mingling together on the edge and creating a new dust type.

As for Aura = a health bar....it is. They state it clearly in the Directors Commentary of V3. Aura is a health bar. RWBY is a video game that is also a show.