Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20170705210718/@comment-27941131-20170801204345

Oh, lots of things to cover here.

Firstly, I'll add some of the prominent relationships in just a sec.

Secondly, making an assassination technique designed by a master assassin that can pierce Aura after decades of study and practise isn't that far of a stretch in my opinion. The strike would pierce like attacks can pierce armour. It still provides protection, just not from the point it was penatrated until repaired, or in this case, regenerated.

The weapon Semblance is designed to be a Pseudo-Semblance, in the idea that the weapon's Aura is only mimicking Aura and isn't truly Aura. As for Aura-forging, the smith Taizai Akane was the only one who figured out that technique and her style has never been replicated, so the weapons she made (a small number by the way). It's a lot like the Aura-piercing technique, but Asha actually teaches the PS members how to use it rather than let it be lost to time. Side note: Akane was alive a long time ago (which would be just before RWBY's time had they existed).

Anthem, like all of the other Akane weapons, don't produce their own Aura. They act as a magnifying glass with a filter for the wielder. Their Aura is channeled through and enhanced by the weapon, and the Psuedo-Semblance is based on the purpose Akane gave the weapon. Anthem was a ritual dagger built to appease a cult that threatened her. Torpor was designed as a mercy killer because it administers a powerful sleep poison prior to killing. Or, more accurately, Torpor has that ability because Akane wanted a mercy killer.

Did I leave anything out?