I think people are doing that thing where the threads instincts and views on a topic really don't match the instincts and views of the characters in the quest.
If windherdering is learnable/teachable. its very much going to be considered a guild secret. it's potentially powerful, dangerous, exclusive, and will give those that use it status and prestige over those that don't know how to use it.
Its either going to be a gey college guild secret or a WEB-MAT guild secret, or a master-apprentice secret:
Its not going to be in mathys instincts to spread it wide, nor would the Grey Patriarch let her. yes, Lords and Ladies are given the room to do what they want usually, and every wizard has the right to their secrets.
but what is very much not a right of every wizard is spreading magical secrets, especially unique, powerful magical skills and spells, without the Patriarchs/Supreme Patriarchs explicit permission. and windherider is powerful enough of a skill set that he would be in his right to come down on its spreading if he made that case.
now that said, I would like to teach it as part of WEB-MAT, that would very much be a recruitment draw and a powerful justification for its existence, and a prestige point.
but we need to remember that it has to be a secret skill, but we can decide what type of secret: gey college secret, WEB-MAT guild secret or master-apprentice.
