User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/Maidens - Origin of Dust and the Kingdoms?/@comment-2135507-20151218072736

My theory is that Cinder is growing in power so she can steal the Summer Maiden and is enlisting other women to steal the other Maiden's power so she can be in control of them without having to risk taking on that much power and destroying herself. I think she's grooming Emerald to be the Spring Maiden and Neo was the one that attacked Amber so that she could be the Fall Maiden.

I'm also thinking that Raven might be a Maiden right now because of her ability to just create a Dark Portal and how afraid Neo was of her... idk