Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160225225013/@comment-14138255-20160314193738

It wouldn't be a stretch for all of RWBY to become Maidens, a chosen team destined to defeat Salem by their own merits, but Ruby can probably go on without the Maiden powers until the very end when Cinder dies, and earns her desire to save the world, and use it to slay Salem.

That's a very obvious route to go though, so I doubt it can go that easily. I have a feeling the powers will just go to others.

Here's a dark, unlikely theory, what if Winter's aura is stolen to fuel a Penny android (perhaps to silence her) and is killed, but her aura's still in the Penny robot, would Weiss be able to look at it with any form of detatchment? Wow, do not know where that came from, but yeah.