Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-26339753-20151212205645

ChishioKunrin wrote: I'm just saying, it's hinted that Cinder stole part of Amber's Power of Autumn, and we've seen Cinder use rune rings, not just to obliterate debris, but also to change her outfit (albeit, the outfit could've been made mostly of obsidian or something).

Glynda made a magic circle to block the explosion of the Dust crystal, so that could still be explained as a super maxed out Aura shield. But a magic circle appeared in the sky when she made the hail storm. That could be explained as part of her Semblance, but... eh...

That's the problem, it can be mostly explained, but then you have the fact that this magical season Maidens thing is meant to be kept secret, so if Glynda is the Winter Maiden, she would want to keep it on the downlow by doing things that could be explained in other ways. Episode 1 was the only time we've seen Glynda create magic circles, but we saw Cinder make her rune rings in Volume 2.

Blaaaah. Has Glynda needed to fight that hard ever since, though?

In fact, the reason the Oz Sqaud was questioning so tightly Ruby as to what Cinder looked like was beacause if she matched the description of the lady Glynda fought the night she met Ruby, they would know for sure the infiltrator was the one who fucked up Amber-Qrow just confirmed it for them.