Talk:Myrtenaster/@comment-25936766-20170713233835/@comment-4010415-20170714011310

The emphasis is placed on assumptions. The hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. "Cinder's clothes glow bright orange (and that is literally the ONLY GLOW PRESENT) and she does fiery things and makes obsidian (volcanic black glass). Therefore, bright orange Dust is probably Lava or Fire Level 2" uses the fewest assumptions because it is straightforward with the fewest assumptions made.

Seriously, although her outfit isn't jet black, the purest darkest black, vanta fricking black, that does not mean that she has earth Dust somewhere in her outfit, especially considering that literally the only glow that her suit had was the bright orange. There was no grayish-white glow that would indicate use of earth Dust. There was literally only one Dust type glowing on her outfit, and that was the bright orange Dust which uses the same color scheme as the crystals we've seen.

As for the volcano biome, which had lava geysers, it makes since to think that the use of orange Dust there is indicative of a more volcano-related element. It's like how one can assume that the crystals present in the geyser biome are steam because geysers are a combination of hot water and steam and the crystals are same color as the one in Winter's sword, which she used to hide in a cloud of steam.