Warning: The following may contain spoilers (depending on how you define spoilers).
Over the games of the Breath of Fire series, one can track the evolution of the Wyndian people. My personal theory is that Breath of Fire IV is first, then Breath of Fire, then Dragon Quarter, then II, then III. At the start of Breath of Fire II, the Dragon tribes live underground, so it makes sense for Dragon Quarter - which involves dragons leaving the underground - to serve as a prequel. This means that DQ Nina is not actually related to the other Ninas.
In the first Breath of Fire they were able to fly, and transform into birds. By the time of the second game, they have mostly lost this ability. Although they still have wings, they do not fly so easily, and for a Wyndian to turn into a bird requires a great sacrifice - namely that they cannot change back.
In Breath of Fire III, the Wyndian tribe no longer had wings, although the young Princess Nina wore a winged ornament on her back - perhaps a throwback to the time when her people did have wings. The young Princess Nina is shown to save herself from falling, by slowing her plunge to a safe level. When she grows up, she has wings, although she does not fly with them.
Nina of Breath of Fire IV also has wings, and can fly with them, although not quite to the same level as the original Nina. The Wyndian city is built of high towers and windmills, and it appears that not all of the people have wings as they once did. Again, Nina is an evolutionary throwback.
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, contains no reference to the Wyndians. Although Nina does have wings, these are a cruel parody. They are a genetic enhancement, created so that she can filter pollution from the air, and into her own lungs.
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