This spell is a part of the Air's Constant Flow spell chain and is found in the Air's Constant Flow rune stone.
West Wind's Protection left a gap on purpose - melee punished outright, ranged only sometimes turned aside, and magic let through entirely untouched, because some fights are still won with a blade rather than a spell and the aeromancer had made peace with that. West Wind's Vengeance is the aeromancer finally going back and closing it. Whatever grew in between - the patience learned tending wounds with West Wind's Blessing, maybe, or simply years of watching that one gap get exploited one time too many - the answer that came back is total. Nothing gets through this one. Nothing gets to.
A spiraling wind wraps close around the chosen target, and it doesn't discriminate the way Protection once had to. Anything that strikes at the protected target - a blade, an arrow, a spell, a dragon's own breath, anything at all - answers to the same current, and the attacker is struck back instantly for 9d10 points of damage, no exceptions carved out this time, no element or method left safe from it. It isn't retaliation offered carefully, the way most of this chain's gifts have been. It's retaliation finally given its full voice - the thing West Wind's Protection always wanted to be, before the aeromancer knew how to let it.
The West Wind was never truly gentle. It was only ever waiting to be asked properly.
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