Editing Wilders (section)

== The Aspect of Wind ==

The Mother of Sighs likes cunning and clever worshipers who embrace change in their hearts.  Her followers are explorers of the wide world and they seldom settle anywhere for long. Given the choice between the new and the known, they will always venture to the unknown. 
 
=== Knickerknocks  ===

The Knickerknocks are beings of the air, they are not fixed in shape but shift and dance in the wind. They never speak, they communicate by creating winds that can cause tree branches  to swing ways that those who know their secrets can interpret.  (The name ‘knickerknock’ is believed to come from the sound of branches tapping on the window.)
 
Knickerknocks are playful creatures and their actions are rarely life-threatening. More often, they find pleasure in tormenting a chosen victim - using scary noises to keep him awake through the night, forcing him to constantly walk upwind, or by throwing small objects at him.

=== Stormwings ===

Stormwings are bird people, similar to the out-world harpies.  They are a mixture of black-feathered bird and pale woman (or man), with wings and tails of a bird, and a woman's head and middle torso. The legs and feet are those of a bird, and the bird-woman can use the claws as hand replacements when needed. Stormwings always arrive as a flock with a storm, and they blend in with the storm clouds as they fly - only their shrill cries say when they have arrived. However, when the lightning flashes, even the untrained eye can detect their gloomy characters lurking in the sky. 
 
Stormwings are especially fond of feasting on human flesh. A favorite game is to kidnap a young human male, sexually torment him before and during mating, then dine on his spent body.   
 
=== Mother of Sighs ===
 
Mother of Sighs, also known as ''Mater Suspiriorum'', appears as a whirlwind, so strong and rapid that tears run down the eyes of all who watch her. Nobody is aware of her exact form, though some claim to have seen a woman's figure from the middle of a vaguely twisting vortex. She is mischievous and playful rather than gloomy and malicious, but prone to occasional flashes of cruelty. When she goes wild, she leaves a terrible trail of chaos - the roof of a house in a nearby field, the cow from the field in a nearby tree, and the branches of the tree atop a kitchen table rightside up in the middle of the street.  
 
Her home is in the sky above the clouds, and it is said you must fly straight up through a thousand birds of prey for three sun-filled days and three empty dark nights. The Stormwings could carry an adventurer to her home, but it is more likely they would couple with, then eat, the traveller.
 
The determined wanderer could drop off from a cliff on a high mountain and hope the Goddess will send a wind to support him. And once he has arrived, there is only a huge mass of swirling air which must be somehow entered. 
 
She also has a good sense of humor and loves practical jokes
 
She does not like pious or vengeful worshipers. The collection of goods and property is despicable to her, as is the general inability to rise above the current situation. She wishes her servants remain unrestricted by rules and unbound by possessions. Instead, they should travel freely like the age of the wind.
 
Sacrifices to the Mother of Sighs,  whether valuable objects, dead animals or live people, are usually thrown down from the highest heights possible.  She is sometimes known to have lifted a victim to walk in the winds, if for some reason she has chosen to save his life.