Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27143816-20170108185623/@comment-25396609-20170108235250

Nightmarrionette wrote:

They are destructive in nature. Do you ever see things like pollination happen in the fall? They only vital natural process that doesn't stop in fall is decomposition from all of the newly dead organic matter. They are ongoing in fall, but they are slowing down in advance of the winter, where they entirely stop. Transitioning into their cold weather states so they are safe.

"Autumn, especially in poetry, has often been associated with melancholia  The possibilities of summer are gone, and the chill of winter is on the horizon. Skies turn grey, the amount of usable daylight drops rapidly, and many people turn inward, both physically and mentally.   It has been referred to as an unhealthy season." Those are still not destructive; they are symptoms of the transition into winter; which is far more destructive. The axial tilt is likely but it isn't confirmed. We can assume that from our world but for all we know the seasons either didn't exist before the maidens (hence them bearing the original maiden's names coincidentaly) or the Wizard create the seasons and passed on their responcibilites onto the maidens. Remember this is a world with magical energy crystals, uper powers, and essentially shadow demons. It isn't one to adhear to our current understanding. It is a greater assumption that magic is responsible than that it works like literally all planets do. You are still assuming that they don't. We haven't seen enough of the maidens on-screen, least of all the Spring Maiden, to truly determine whether each maiden has unique powers in addition to their elemental powers or not. We only see Cinder using fire and we see Amber making storms and changing the colour of leaves, however we don't know if all maidens can do this or if just the Fall Maiden can chage leaf colours. She... she froze them. she didn't change the color, that was ice forming on them. But for the sake of debating the rest of the theory let's just assume that for the context of a debate the Spring Maiden could heal Qrow. If that's the case then how does the other 75-80% of the theory hold up? The spring maiden is almost definitely with Raven's tribe. I'm still not sold on that being a symbol, I am reasonably certain it's a footprint from a grimm rather than any sort of calling card; a bandit tribe would have left a marking in a more obvious place, and in color rather than stamped into the dirt at random.