Look at how useful it would be to have Fear, Shades, and Crush. Why haven't the Orlanthi have darkness powers? (repeat for sorcery powers, or even Lunar powers, or any other magic the Orlanthi don't have).
Lunars can get access to air powers should they want. But its not part of their culture, so by and large, they don't want.
There was a story that Doskalos (who become the first Red Emperor) had managed to obtain a teleport, so individual Lunars could have a trick or two. But as air powers generally figure as enemies in their rituals, putting in the effort to gain air powers tends to cut you off from the mainstream religions like Yelm and the Lunar Religion, so they tend not too. Of course, a few tough Lunars can have air powers stolen from their enemies/ gained on heroquest, and so on, but its not going to be taught in basic classes at the LCM, so its the exceptional Lunar that has the neat powers.
Excluding of course, Shargashi, who do have air powers and are terrifying (which tends to confirm the general feeling that air powers are something sensible Pelorians avoid), and the Southern Pelorians, who are pretty close to Orlanthi in many ways (as Jeff has pointed out).
Cheers David ------------------------------
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