Talk:Sigil of the Hare/@comment-4773581-20131208032521/@comment-4773581-20131208051751

Our point is that the use of "magic" implies that there isn't an explanation for it at all, despite there quite clearly being one. Hell, given Weiss' semblance of Glyphs and the implied elemental abilites that dust carries, it isn't hard to imagine that both Cinder and Glynda use a combination of their own semblances and dust to do what they do. Is it confirmed? No. Is it a reasonable guess based on what little information is available? Yes.

Don't just say you don't understand something and do your own thing. Actually give that something a proper examination using the available information so that you can, at the least, say you tried to understand it.

At the moment, though, you can get away with quite a lot by simply writing it off as either "dust manipulation", "aura usage", or "semblance". The first covers the broad spectrum of elemental effects, like Cinder's blasts of fire or, and could possibly be mixed with semblance if the semblance allows it (like Weiss' glyphs, for instance), the second covers superhuman abilities as well as things based off of Ki/Qi/Chi, and the last basically covers everything else that isn't refused for either being too far from what little has been shown or completely overpowered, but can sometimes overlap with the other two. There are limits to each, of course, and they're all purely speculative at this point, but they still cover just about everything that's plausible.