Talk:Dust/@comment-26581829-20160814112926/@comment-4010415-20160814122950

We have definitely seen two different shades of blue (maybe 3? We'd have to check if the blue crystals in the geyser biome are a different shade), and it seems like there are two shades of orange.

I still don't think that Raven's sword made the portal, though. Like I said above, she may have just been using her sword as a focus to make the portal, just like how


 * Glynda uses her crop as a focus for her telekinesis Semblance


 * Weiss sometimes uses Myrtenaster to focus where she wants to place a glyph. Most obvious moment she did that was in Lessons Learned when she was trying to summon. She did that twice in that episode.

I think that, with wind Dust, we should just say what I said that I was trying to say, but phrased better than I originally put it: During volume 2, it was said that green Dust is wind, but it appears that wind may have been changed to white Dust in volume 3. The only reason I even thought it'd be okay to put that is because we have two moments where the show pretty much goes "Look at this white Dust, now watch it make wind", unlike many of the moments we've seen Dust use.

We have explicitly seen


 * Red = Fire; Ruby sneezing on red Dust, Myrtenaster glowing red when she made fire in the Emerald Forest, Amber's staff using a red crystal for fire. Miles told us red is fire.


 * Blue = Ice; Ruby sneezing on blue Dust. Which shade is blue may have changed, though, what with the ice biome in the tournament.


 * Yellow = Lightning; Ruby sneezing on yellow Dust, silhouette guy using yellow Dust in WoR: Dust.


 * White = Wind? The camera giving us a close-up on Myrtenaster landing on the white Dust vial when Weiss made a tornado, and Amber being shown using a white crystal for gusts of wind.

Orange is, sadly, still questionable, since it's hard to tell for 100% certain what's going on whenever it's used, even though we have Cinder using orange Dust to make obsidian and orange Dust crystals being in a volcano-themed biome in the tournament that had lava geysers.