Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.146.149.161-20150813074512/@comment-4010415-20150901063016

I said this before somewhere, though I'm not sure if it was on this site, that Weiss uses Myrtenaster as an instrument for directing Dust when she isn't using her glyphs to control Dust. So, basically, Live is correct.

He's also correct about how Myrtenaster functions. Monty released an image showing Myrtenaster's mechanics, and it's pretty much as simple as Live made it sound.

She pulls back the hammer to allow the revolver to rotate, I assume. I'm sure she doesn't want the revolver spinning around willy nilly while she's swinging her rapier. When it's set to the color she wants to use, she pulls the trigger to allow the Dust to flow from the exhaust port onto the blade.

We even saw this in action in the White Trailer, when she covered Myrtenaster in red Dust.

This Dust-on-the-blade technique is exactly why she accidentally set the Emerald Forest on fire.

We've also seen Weiss use Myrtenaster as an instrument in No Brakes. When she created that shield to block the Lieutenant, she drew a circle with Myrtenaster, then pointed the blade at the circle. There's no doubt in my mind that that shield was Dust, not Aura. We saw the same exact cyan shockwaves in Painting the Town, when Yang tried to punch Neo, but those shockwaves were there for a much shorter time and thus were harder to notice.

That said, I'm not sure if Weiss can create an Aura shield. By that, I mean a circular shield made of condensed Aura, not the passive Aura armor that coats every huntsman and huntress. Ren and Cinder have shown the ability to make Aura shields, and they have also shown a high level of control of their Aura by other means - Ren, through his Aura-augmented martial arts attacks (see the Aura shockwave when he hit the fang through the King Taijitu's head), and Cinder, through her high level of Dust control.

But, once again, Weiss may not need to train herself to have that much Aura control because, as she showed in her fight against the Boarbatusk in volume 1, she can use her glyphs as shields. She just has to set the glyph's motion control to Stop, rather than Push or Pull.