User blog comment:Withersoul/How would man have fought against the grim before using dust?/@comment-10390252-20130902144144/@comment-23784953-20130902153317

@Sorairo

It's a theory of mine that only Signal does the whole "Make your own weapon!" rule. Most combat schools don't have that, which would require the students to commission their weapons, or inherit a weapon from their parents or something.

One proof of that is, once again, Crescent Rose and Ember Celica. Compare them to... well, Ren's weapon this time. They seem less metallic. The red and yellow parts specifically I mean.