It's being taught as a stand-alone feat, because it's being taught to people with no Defender Wind affinity. The person teaching it most definitely does have a Defender Wind affinity, and for her this is just one of many DW feats she knows.
By all means have her from Tarthcaer if that works for you, and by all means one of Tarose's allys/friends/followers whatever. Just as long as she's free to come down to Whitewall and help.
> The defender storm
> generally appears naturally in Earth Season. Early or late. The
> bat arrives in Disorder week of Dark Season. Thats the first week
> of dark season, so maybe she comes late?
We said from the start that we're trying to use Defender Wind out of season here, so don't worry about it.
I've been looking for Defender Wind myths, either where Vinga uses her Defender Wind (in any way) or the one where she gains it. The main write-up has two fragments: she takes Jiril's powers from him on p167 of TS, and uses them against Valind on p168.
It occurs to me that there's also a DW mention in that last rather
tongue-in-cheek story I wrote,
http://www.jane-williams.me.uk/glorantha/stories/tarthcaer.cfm
and since that's all about the founding of Tarthcaer, it *may* be more
suitable for Rob. Just re-write the line "She threw her own Defender
winds at him" to be a bit more specific. In fact, rewrite the whole
thing to be a bit more serious... But you've got a proto-HQ there, with
easily defined stations. The intended main reward is a hill-fort, not a
DW feat, but it's useable. They'd all learn how to find Tarthcaer again
as a main/side effect if they didn't already know, which may well be a
good thing. And if Rob needs something in a hurry, this is a quick
answer.
For more general purposes, though, if we're turning this into a scenario-let for general use, I'd like a more suitable myth. And I'm unsure if that myth should show Vinga *using* DW to blow things away, or show how she *learnt* to blow things away. My thoughts at present are tending towards a dust storm or perhaps a plague of insects, which her mother and sisters are trying to sort out with a broom.
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