Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-1599757-20151212162645/@comment-10390252-20151213135034

It's worth noting that IRL, sometimes technologies have been used because they were perceived as being 'needed' long before all the side-effects were known. Sometimes, these side-effects were not even conceived as being possible at the time the technology was first being used (the effects of CFCs on high-altitude ozone being one infamous example).

The point? It's quite possible that the Atlesians have started using their new toy without actually knowing the long-term consequences of transplanting auras. It is equally possible that Cinder is using some equivalent technology or ritual in similar ignorance of its long-term consqueences on her.

The pursuit of power blinds and sometimes destroys those engaged in that pursuit.