Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-26226441-20180127223551/@comment-34760680-20180221144527

Sentry 616 wrote: That doesn't make sense. First, we have no evidence that normal Maidens are affected by SEWs. Cinder was affected, but that's because she had a Grimm inside/attached to her.

Second, why would Salem, the only one the Grimm answer to, create a hereditary trait that only hurts Grimm? One which can be so potent that a novice with zero training, experience, or any kind of knowledge about her power whatsoever, was able to petrify the largest Grimm yet seen in a single blast. Her first blast of those powers no less.

1.  Salem says in V4 "it is because of the maidens power" and "your newfound strength brings with it a crippling weakness". These both imply that maidens are effected or at least factor in some way to Cinder taking damage. The reason why we didnt see Raven react to it could be just for story reasons, or it could have some unseen effect like weakening or disrupting their aura since a maiden's power is tied to her soul/aura. Another reason perhaps is that the grimm powers and maiden powers have upset the balance of light and dark in Cinder's body but not Raven's.

2. Perhaps its some convoluted scheme to become a new dark god of destruction. After all why would Salem by trying to capture all of the other maidens? (Other than for the relics) Raven said that Salem would come back to kill them at some point, perhaps Raven knows something more about the maiden powers or about Salem. Cinder tried to suck the maiden powers out of Vernal and then Raven also, which means that she still has that parasite which she used to collect the maiden powers.