>> I have some vague idea of
>> Vinga teaching one of the more independent women
>> (perhaps Yelorna?) how to call the Defender's Wind,
>> and leaving Kalikos with her. The men credit
>> Kalikos with all the power, and name the Quest so.
>
>The idea's good, but I'd be reluctant to give Yelorna
>Wind powers. She just doesn't have them. Nor does she
>use a javelin, the bow's her weapon. Pick another
>woman, any other woman, one you just invented for this
>purpose. So Kalikos isn't in fact Vinga, (s)he's one
>of Vinga's pupils. With, perhaps, a promise to return
>Vinga's javelin when she comes back for it? There's a
>link for the Orlanthi to disrupt things!
>
>Or indeed at that rate, leave the Pentan Kalikos as a
>man, who takes over her javelin. (A good-looking one.
>She lets him have the javelin because she quite
>fancies him and can't admit it).
The Char-Un do have some wind cults - the ones mentioned in SoK are Yuliuk and Raug (pg.48). Interestingly the latter is open to both men and women.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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