You should have the info to prove yourself before you quote me. Where's this info that's set in stone, that you're laying claim to and saying you 'made the character'. I don't know, maybe you did but there's nothing but air behind your words.
I'm not using the wiki, if you want to know. I have the games, seen the official SC website, and I've read her profiles. I theorized she was born with those wind potential because it stated in her profile her dad was a shaman, her grandmother was the village elder, and she could possessed unparalleled potential to be a shaman as well. It said nothing about her mother so I would guess that her mother was one of the few that wasn't born with the abilities. It doesn't make sense if she was unfaithful to her religion since she married the shaman, Talim's dad.
*I said above, that I theorized powers were both inherited and came through faith, explaining the decline in wind practitioners due to the spanish and portugese arrival with christianity.
During the watermill part, when Talim began losing her connection to the wind, it said in her profile she was heartbroken and that she was losing something that had always been a 'part of her'.
I do not have the audacity to claim 100% she was born with powers, but I did chuck out alot of reasoning and supporting info for my theory (did you even read the quote that you quoted). You spewed out nothing but claims without any meat to it and I'm more than irritated. I welcome intellectual arguments but I don't like wasting time on arrogant/empty quotes.
*Sophitia was just given a holy weapon, she wasn't really blessed. All of Hephy's warriors received the same oracle and weapons to destroy SE. If they were blessed, I don't think Aeon would have become a lizard, and then become a flying lizard that eats ppl.
And btw, you don't call having wind powers spiritual? Oh really? (>O.o) Zas, Kilik, Talim, Taki, hmmmm...