Righteous Wind

From: Philipp Grawe <pgrawe_at_zfFEHZwe6goM-wFzPB-ZNe0MSMSHLA6cELeNUqXUNIosWLpjpZi62uHh2QLH5VTfGDnOQ>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:58:18 +1100

Hi,

I'm contemplating a campaign set before, during and after the Righteous Wind Rebellion around Alda Chur.

My question is, What is the Righteous Wind?

Sources (that I can't remember off-hand) talk about the Orlanthi "raising the Righteous Wind" and imply that the Orlanthi nearly won until they were backstabbed by Gargarthi Windwalkers, so I figure the Righteous Wind must have been something reasonably powerful.

I haven't turned up much in the way of detail about the Righteous Wind in the official sources, how have other people handled this?

My thoughts so far:
- The Righteous Wind is the wyter of the Orlanthi rebellion. As the
Lunars forced more and more people into the arms of the rebellion, the Wyter grew stronger and stronger until a point was reached where the Wyter (and thereby the rebellion) could match the Lunars This strikes me as fairly mundane on the scale of things.

• This one is less well thought out, but the Righteous Wind is a previous unknown aspect of Orlanth, the Orlanth that fought the unfairness of Yelm, who was outraged at the Chaos in the Universe, who resolved to right the wrongs, who couldn't stand by and watch the bad guys win and stomp his way of life. This aspect would be turned up by the rebels in a new myth. A part of the campaign arc would be the realisation through heroquesting that this isn't just a myth, this is a great source of power if wielded correctly

thanks
Harry.