Item from Volume 8 by Rooster Teeth
Crystallized natural energy that powers all of Remnant — now a war resource being burned through at unsustainable rates as Atlas fights for survival.
Dust powers everything in Remnant and the siege of Atlas is consuming it at catastrophic rates. Weapons, shields, hard-light barriers, heating systems, military equipment, the gravity engines keeping the city floating — all of it runs on Dust, and the supply lines are cut. The Schnee Dust Company's mines and refineries are irrelevant when a Grimm army stands between them and the people who need the product. Every elemental type sees combat use: fire Dust in weapon rounds, ice Dust in defensive barriers, lightning Dust powering the military's systems, gravity Dust keeping Atlas aloft. Hazel injects raw Dust crystals into his own body to fight Salem. Weiss channels it through Myrtenaster for elemental glyph effects. The ammunition counters are running down across the kingdom, and nobody is making more.
Naturally occurring crystalline energy — raw Dust appears as colorful crystals that can be refined into powder, loaded into weapons, or used industrially. Red for fire, blue for ice, yellow for lightning, green for wind. During the siege of Atlas, Dust is a rapidly depleting war resource powering everything from hard-light barriers to personal weapons.
Also known as: Dust, Dust crystals, Dust rounds, Dust ammunition