Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26869193-20180310192420/@comment-35274492-20180413131625

Cinder could be alive though being frozen and falling down such a long shaft into the bottomless void... Well, seen anime and cartoon characters survive more ridiculous things than that, so likely will be seeing her again or we'd see Salem getting incredibly pissed off at Cinder's overconfidence costing her the power of a Maiden. But let's be honest, Cinder's job was technically done already with the fall of Vale and Beacon, Salem already has the relic from there, so she was just useful for general things such as terrorizing innocent children, bringing despair to all who encountered her and fighting maidens. Meh, Salem can just get someone to replace her.

As for the Maiden powers, it's implied that a maiden can receive another maiden's power whether or not that would cause an overload of power that could cause them to explode into pieces... it's a web cartoon so nothing too crazy like that would happen. But the best case is that either Cinder is still alive and probably having a mental breakdown similar to Darth Maul after being defeated by Obi-wan Kenobi but this time for both Ruby AND Raven or she is dead and the power is going to be transferred to a random young woman to be the new Fall Maiden since the need of the maiden is no longer required. If they do the latter, we might never hear who she is or any sort of details about her.