Trivia / Winds Alight

• Author Phobia: Spiders for SmashQueen. They appear in the Spirit Temple, and Ruuya is quite firm about avoiding any and all Skulltulas.
• Creator's Favorite: Both Jazzy and Smash had their favorites amongst the original characters. For Jazzy, it was Alysse. For Smash, it was Nan. Close to the end of arc 2 one or the other had to go.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In Intertwined, the Gerudo have already split into two factions: those who want to establish good ties to Hyrule, and those who wish for the rise of Ganondorf. The first chapter was posted the day before Breath of the Wild released, wherein it was revealed that the Sheikah had long ago split into two factions: those who wanted to establish good ties to Hyrule, and those who wished for the rise of Ganon. In BotW, however, the alliance with Ganon was more out of spite for the royal family and those who decided to leave technology behind, to the point of attempting to kill the hero and the Sheikah in Kakariko Village.
• Life Imitates Art: In December of 2019, two chapters were posted showing a plague of Malice infecting Windfall Village, causing many to fall ill and die. Several months later, an actual pandemic swept the real world.
• Saved from Development Hell: Memoirs of a Wind Mage was originally planned for about a dozen chapters. One chapter came about about every month, but then it stopped. For five years. Thankfully, once it restarted it kept going right to the end.
  • Intertwined almost ended up stuck at the first chapter if not for the team up between authors.
• Throw It In!: A slight error in chapter six wiped Labrynna from the map. It was kept in.
• What Could Have Been: Plenty.
  • An interquel between Memoirs and Intertwined that was Based on a Dream was scrapped in favor of getting the latter off the ground.
  • While planning for Intertwined, it was originally intended for Hyrule to be roughly based off of the map from The Adventure of Link. The first chapter came out shortly before Breath of the Wild, and after exploring the game, the new map was applied to the story instead.
  • The original idea for Intertwined centered around only Vaati and Ruuya, with no village of faithfuls or old faces to aid either. The tone was much darker, with a more intensely paranoid Ruuya unable to get past her fear of Hyrulean soldiers and both characters trying to get one over on the other in order to stay in control. Flow was planned to have been transformed into a Darknut after MoaWM, and then killed by Ruuya in the palace. A horse race for a chance to enter the Castle was scrapped. After JazzyKandra came aboard the story veered onto its current course.
  • The trip through the Spirit Temple was originally planned to be longer, but the chapter was getting long enough at that point.
  • Around the end of arc 2, Nan was considered to die instead of Alysse.