Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-27366857-20151208163511/@comment-26397825-20151214003309

When was Summer hinted at being a Maiden? And why would she stay and make a family with a man who'd already lost his first love if she was a Maiden, when their very existence was meant to be kept quiet, and staying would potentially put her family in danger?

And it has never been hinted that Summer left no corpse behind; we simply don't know. She may be buried at the cliffside altar, or she may only have a monument there with no body. The epitaph of 'Thus kindly I Scatter' is actually a reference to her probable semblance; Ruby's semblance is called Scatter, and it is highly likely that she inherited something extremely similar to Summer's.

It's also a reference to a poem written by Thomas Moore, called The Last Rose of Summer. The lines of the fourth stanza (second lot of four lines in the second verse) go as such:

"Thus kindly I scatter,

Thy leaves o'er the bed,

Where thy mates of the garden

Lie scentless and dead."

It's not even a final line; it's halfway through the poem and it says that the rose is not dead yet, but all the other roses in the garden are. Hence, it's called The Last Rose of Summer.

So no, I don't see how Summer has been hinted at being the Maiden. However, Raven who had to leave for an unknown reason and has extremely supernatural powers (portal making, anyone?) is a prime candidate for being a Maiden. Which one, we don't know. But it's highly likely.