User blog comment:Krauserlols/Is Riven a real Wind Master?/@comment-5824171-20131217101215

Wind slash is wind. It's in the name, there's no reason to think it's anything but wind. It's an execution move, it's "Wind" slash, and as for controlling the blade with her mind, she doesn't do that. She just wields the sword, using an unknown force (For all you know, wind) to augment some of her skills. Your claim that she's got nothing to do with wind is baseless, nowhere does it say that Riven uses her mind to control things, nor that she is spiritually connected to her sword. It's a sword. She's a swordsmaster. That's it. The blade is magic yes, but the form of magic is non-specified. In effect, she's a blank slate and could be using any manner of crap to control it. Who's to say it's not wind? I'm not saying it definitely is, I'm just saying there's no way to substantiate the claim that it's not. After all, wind slash is an execution, and executions kill people. Like elders.

As for it being impossible for it being a noxian, I call bull on that. The group as a whole is very "I AM MIGHTY FEAR MY BICEPS" but you can't say from that steriotype that some of them don't dabble in certain magicks to augment and improve their techniques. Power is power, after all, why shouldn't magic be included? Hell, the very sword she fights with was forged with noxian sorcery and that sure as hell ain't necromantic is it?

It wasn't Yasuo, I think Yasuo would know if he killed the elder and seeing as the entire reason he's out there is to hunt for his elder's killer I'd say he's either Violently schitzophrenic or not the culprit. I don't even know why I addressed the glaringly obvious point.

So maybe she isn't a wind master, but she may well have dabbled in wind powers to make herself stronger. She was deployed to Ionia after all, she may well have been ordered to put a wind-slash through an elder with a lot of power in the area she was fighting in.

Final point: "Ki is not magic" "The floating blade shield is not magic" Yes of course, I forgot that time I went to the shops and saw a perfectly scientifically explainable set of blade-shards floating aroind the cashier as he blasted a mugger with Ki. That was sarcasm. It is, of course, magic on both fronts. If you have seen either of these things happen in reality, you may want to stop taking LSD.