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The people she wants revenge on are the kingdom of Harmonia from Suikoden 3 and her attacking Ted's village is just ironic (her wanting to get revenge on a group of people leads her to doing the exact same thing)

well there are alot of site covering this suikosource.com amoung them but to sum it up
for around 1000 years the kingdom of holy harmonia has existed created by hitsuuk wielder of the circle rune he wanted all of the runes but he could only possess one rune at a time so he hunted down runes which aparently where often hidden in villiages killed all the people and took the rune he later discovered that using the circle rune he could make clones of himself and he did so and fused the true runes with luc and sasari well one of the villiages harmonia destroyed was the gate villiage and there where only two survivors leknatt who became an insanly powerful sorrceress and windy who swore revenge against harmonia and began resorting to there tactics

Hey! Don't insult Hikusaak! scream Just because you don't know the -real- intention behind him wanting to collect all the True Runes doesn't mean you have to slam him.

One thing that Jasae didn't mention that the Gate Rune was split into two- Windy possessing the front portion and Leknaat the back. Other than that, that's generally all there is to be known about Windy and Leknaat's past.

Not really true, this statement. Maybe in the beginning, they were allowed to choose their own bearers (as in after the Suiko universe was formed after the battle between the Sword and Shield), but considering that we've been seeing the True Runes being transferred from person to person for the past few games, that makes the statement false.

For example, we've seen Ted transferring the Soul Eater to Tir, Neclord transferring the Blue Moon Rune to Sierra, and of course, Wyatt transferring the True Water Rune to Chris (I'm referring to the manga, as I have yet to play the game and get a sense of what actually happened during that scene). So, in short, it doesn't matter who possesses the Rune. In the end, the person who gets the True Rune is whom the RUNE BEARER chooses, not the True Rune itself.

If your statement was true, can we safely say that the True Wind Rune and True Earth Rune had 'chosen' Luc and Sasarai earlier on? This contradicts with the fact that Hikusaak has said- and you yourself have said as well- that the reason of the creation of the clones (in this case, we're using Luc and Sasarai and examples) was to house the clones. The TWR and TER never had any complaints.

Furthermore, considering the fact that Luc was able to take the True Earth Rune from Sasarai, would that also mean that the True Rune went 'willingly' with him? If the True Rune were to choose its own bearer (and let's have the assumption that Sasarai is the chosen bearer), wouldn't it have remained with Sasarai?

The same hypothesis also applies in Suikoden 1 when Ted was 'controlled' by Windy and told to take the Soul Eater from Tir. Did the Soul Eater refuse? It didn't. So, in conclusion, the True Runes DON'T choose their bearers. It's their bearers who will make that choice of who they want to pass their True Runes on to.

...Okay....that was a long post... sweatdrop

P.S.: Please don't take any offense in what I've posted. I'm merely arguing out a fact here, not trying to start a flame war. Much apologies if I offended anyone. surprised

It's not exactly true, actually.

Though it can be said that the rune bearers are the ones who control where the runes go, the True Runes themselves do seem to hold an influence over events.

In the 5th Suikoden 3 manga, Sarah says, "I wouldn't have thought the rune would accept such a young boy," in regards to Hugo and the True Fire Rune. They must have some sort of say in whether or not they want to accept someone as a rune bearer, then.