Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-201.76.133.29-20140726172901/@comment-11533671-20140728002625

^ That involves a little bit of speculation. Canonically speaking the mountain ash is magic, Stiles is not. I know others have differing views about the ash barrier laid out by Stiles but I choose to believe in the more reasonable conclusion that the ash simply fell in place uniformly and that there was enough to complete the barrier. Stiles says he has "about 50 ft. of ash and then I'm out" and he has a bag with him that contained the ash. Some feel the ash magically increased its mass. So if he originally had 500 ft. of ash in total but the area required another 30 ft. then the ash magically spawned thus making him have 530 ft. of ash, if it were picked up and measured. I prefer to believe that he had enough ash for the entire area but was worried because it didn't seem like enough. Humans cannot pour ash in a perfect pile since some parts of the line would contain more particles of ash than others. I think the ash magically disperses these spots evenly as it lands. The fact that we don't see Stiles grab more ash out of the bag doesn't mean he didn't. At the most basic level I just find it more believable than for the ash to multiply. He wouldn't have needed more than a handful in the first place, IF it could encompass a greater area than the amount one has in hand. Oh well just my opinion.