Mon: Fast Facts - The Venti

Working on: paranormal novella
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The Venti

Roman wind gods, the Venti, were the inspiration for two of my Bites – Wind Kissed, Fire Bound and Taken by the South Wind. Both these stories are packed with Roman mythology about the winds. Here are just a few fast facts:

~ The venti were: Aquilon – the north wind, Auster – the south wind, Vulturnus – the east wind and Favonius – the west wind. In my stories, these guys are 4 sexy Italian brothers who are each windkeepers and possess the power of their wind. (Image: Public Domain)

The villians of the stories are the evil tempest winds, Venti Tempesta. The tempest winds were: Caecius – the northeast wind, Corus – the northwest wind, Apeliotus – the southeast wind and Africus – the southwest wind.

In Wind Kissed, Fire Bound, the venti tempesta are initially trapped in the body of horses under the care of an immortal keeper of the winds, Livia Cavalli (in Roman mythology, the winds were depicted as horses kept in the stables of a storm god).

In Taken by the South Wind, Dante Auster Venti, keeper of the south wind, battles against Africus and finds himself the target of a deadly female assassin, Samia Hassan.

I still have more winds and more Venti brothers to write about…maybe one day when the time is right, I'll finish their stories!