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Michael.halpern.52 wrote: we've also seen cinder use something similar to glyphs, my guess is "glyphs" are usually paired with a separate ability, for the Shnees this is summoning, Glynda- telekinesis, Cinder-pyrokinesis. Glyphs could be the result of complex semblances giving the user more outlets of Aura manipulation.

The Schnee glyphs do more than just summon. They also control motion, and Weiss mentioned time dilation. Glyphs is the name of the Semblance, so perhaps we should call those... magic circles or runes.

Glynda has made magic circles before in the first episode. Cinder creates ring-shaped runes.

I don't know if we can say Cinder's Semblance is runes that give her pyrokinesis, considering that she uses some kind of fire/lava-type Dust. But the runes do seem to help her have more precise and varied control of the Dust she uses, such as when she used three rune rings to create an outward blast in the first episode and when she passed rune rings over herself to transform her outfit in Dance Dance Infiltration.