Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160103163552/@comment-26018514-20160105231238

SpiritedDreaming wrote: 73.Anon.52 wrote:

1.Maiden powers and Amber going down quick: I think the reason her abilities are considered "godlike" is just that she can generate as much oomph as she needs at any time, but she still can only funnel that power usefully using her aura. So, she could probably ass-pull something like conjuring a volcano... but the damn thing could just as easily kill her as kill her opponent, because in order to use it she would expend about as much energy as a foe using dust... that foe just wouldn't have the dust to try such a stupidly dangerous stunt.

The main problem with that is that we specifically see her aura go down - she gets the same effect Mercury had when he ran out of aura - and she is severely injured afterwards, clutching her side even before Cinder shoots her in the back, but she can still throw around wind blasts like it's nothing. That suggests that the Maiden powers aren't in fact tied to how much aura the user has. I think you are misunderstanding what I'm saying.... I'm saying taking a hit is always her Aura(thus how the beat down by 3 people affected her), and that actually directing the attacks also drains her Aura.

The only thing her maiden powers do that is godlike that affect this is summoning natural energy... they don't direct it, they can just generate it as wild energy... she could probably summon a huge tempest or create a volcano, but to use the entire thing to fight with would drain her just as much as any normal hunter would if they could use dust to do the same thing...assuming it wouldn't kill someone to even try using that much.

She might just be summoning wind gusts(energy) rather than directly attacking because that is all she can safely do at that point.