Talk:Amber/@comment-67.243.144.153-20160114020953/@comment-2006510-20160121210239

She has power that remains untested in reserve, given that the moment her Aura was depleted, she STILL threw wind, lightning and fire at them. If she draws power sources outside her own body, she does indeed have 'unimaginable power', compared to the average Huntsman. It doesn't need to be insanely powerful per blow to qualify as such - even from the moment the Maidens were described, we were introduced to the comatose Amber, which told us that while powerful, they're not 'that' powerful; nothing underwhelming by what's been showcased so far, least imo.

Also, Cinder recruited Emerald (trained at illusions and being a thief), and Mercury (trained by his father to be an assassin, and better enough about it to have killed his father), with Cinder's skills being the same as we've seen in present day, time passing between when she got them + fought Amber.

So it's not quite 'barely' or 'wet-behind-the-ears' - if anything, it implies her skills/power, given it took all three of these skilled people just to put up an equal fight, and even then only won because of a lucky shot. And in Emerald's case, survived, given Amber's attempt to kill her