Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25086632-20151123071037/@comment-25086632-20151213004723

Okay, let's make this simple.

Yes, aura is the outward manifestation of the soul. Aura, has a color, not is a color. That color is seemingly related to the character in someway.

Aura acts as a shield, protecting someone from injury (and may make people stronger in general). It acts very much like the shield mechanic from Halo, where being hit makes one's aura deplete a little, but over time it replenishes.

A semblance is the active use/manifestation/whatever of aura. You sacrifice aura to use semblance.

Glyphs, with a capital G, is the Schnee family's semblance.

The other things like what Glynda and Cinder use, we tend to call Discount Arabic, or lately runes, cause of the weird script in it. The leading theory is that they're a very advance use of aura that anyone can learn, though in truth we just don't know.

Dust is, as said in the show, "Nature's Wrath". It's almost like elemental/natural forces/energies in crystal form. Each type of dust, such as Fire, Wind, Lightning, etc, is a specific color.

Dust can be manipulated by a person through use of their aura, but it can also be used in weapons as a power source or ammunition.

You know, next time you could always try doing this thing called ''reading the wiki. ''That is the whole point of the wiki after all.