Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-16348034-20130823234203/@comment-15108745-20130824180036

Angren Túrë wrote: BenRG wrote: Angren Túrë wrote: I wonder if Aura can be channeled through a certain weapon like Dust can? I think that's the precise function of Dust in most weapons - the channel by which aura energy can be harnessed in a wide range of ways. Rather than carry their own ignition power-packs, Dust-augmented weapons use Aura energy for their power source.

Dust can work on its own (as Ruby's sneeze proved) but when in the form Ruby specified in episode 2 - "an extension of ourselves" - then they are far more powerful, responsive, flexible and efficient. Good thought, but I mean raw aura and not Dust, like Ren was using. That's a bit tricky to think about because nobody knows the relationship between Dust and Aura. I mean, I was looking through the RTX RWBY Panel and all they mentioned was Dust but what they were describing really seems to me (at least now that I know what Aura is) to be Aura.

Pyrrha mentioned that all weapons serve as a conduit for Aura but that could mean that it just takes raw Aura OR it uses raw Aura and uses Dust as some kind of converter like what Ben is saying.