Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160103163552/@comment-26339753-20160103165240

Shadow at Morning wrote: I was hoping for more motivations. We  still have no idea what it is that Cinder wants. And was she talking to someone during those black bits? It sounded to me like she was taking orders from someone. This obviously has been theorized before, but its confirmation would go a long way to explaining how she has such resources to call on.

What the hell is she? A fucking Grimm came out of her hand! What the hell was that tattoo?

Emerald confirmed for hallucination/perception fuckery. Mercury has prosthetic legs and his father seemed to be a right bastard. So he was acting. Adam is quite highly placed in the Fang, very near the top, contrary to my own theorization. I suppose in this universe, authority does equal asskicking.

How the hell did just three people manage to bring down a Maiden, who presumably has vast Aura reserves? I think it might be due precisely to the Maidenhood; recall what Winter said about Semblance (and Aura presumably by extension) being like a muscle. Could it be that Amber relied overmuch on the powers of her station and neglected Aura? Remember, three highly trained assassins/illusionists didn't actually manage to bring Amber down-she was totally willing to execute all three of them. Cinder only got in a lucky shot when Amber derped and turned her back to Cindy, leading to her getting Legolas'd.