The Way of the Flowing Wind

The Way of the Flowing Wind, sometimes called the Gale King style, is a style of martial arts that focuses on the manipulation of air. Like most Monk disciplines, the style emphasizes using one's innate "Ki" to cause natural-based effects through the Weave, much like the magic Druids practice. This particular style focuses on the shaping of the actual atmosphere around the practitioner, moving, forming, and using it as a tool.
While taught in a few locations, the primary teachers are the Air Monks of Daggerfall Island, who live in a secluded and neutral existence where they keep watch over the magical winds that often coalesce over the island.
The first steps of learning the Way of the Flowing Wind involve, like all disciplines, copious amounts of practice. The discipline is built around three different Forms, a set of movements that is memorized and practiced constantly. These movements tend to look something like a cross between dancing and fighting. Students on the island are required to practice at least one Form every morning.
Once at least the First Form is seen to be sufficiently memorized, the monks will undertake the most difficult task: teaching the student to use their own Ki and push it into a magical form. They will teach the student to extend forth their innate magic in this way, and then their training proceeds into performing all three Forms with their magic extended.
The movements of the Forms combined with the distortions of air are said to be exceedingly beautiful, and are performed by several older students at celebratory gatherings on the island.
The Way is said to grow with the learner, with there always being another facet to learn. Supposedly, higher levels of understanding can use the style to fly, buffet, and occasionally even control lightning.
Practitioners who reach the higher levels of the of the discipline are exceedingly dangerous, acting with near-supernatural speed, barely needing to see, and an incredible ability to survive. Supposedly the earliest practitioners employed this style, along with the other three (or, as some believe, other four) elemental styles in order to take on entire armies during the early days of the Faeric Era.
In the modern day, the teaching and use of the style is very selective, with the Aaracockra of the Aeries carefully guarding who they teach it to, and the Air Monks only teaching it to students who have the express permission of High Master Ngyato.

History

The first practitioners of the elemental styles supposedly learned them from either elemental spirits or the remains of sealed titans, depending on the manuscript consulted. This power was used and abused during the early stages of the Faeric Era, with many martial artists acting as powerful warlords until technological advancements allowed for a sufficient countermeasure to be developed.
How the styles were rediscovered after the peoples of the Faeric Era were wiped out is unknown. However, the styles appeared again largely in communities concentrated around elemental anomalies. They have since taken on a more backseat role, as most capable of teaching and/or achieving the styles to the highest levels tend to be unlikely to use them for evil purposes.

Primary Related Location

Daggerfall Island