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“	The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash-gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody ... Unclean and suffering from suppuration of the flesh, the Wendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption.	„
	~ Basil Johnston, an Ojibwe teacher and scholar

Summary

The Wendigo is a supernatural creature from Algonquian Mythology that is present in Native American and Canadian folklore. It is usually seen as a humanoid entity that feeds on humans. It is often seen as being a symbol against the taboo of cannibalism.

Powers and Stats

Tier: At least 9-B. High 7-C with Magic

Name: Wendigo, Windigo, Witigo, Witiko, Wee-Tee-Go

Origin: Algonquian Mythology

Gender: Varies

Age: Varies

Classification: Evil Spirit

Attack Potency: At least Wall level (Described as being giant compared to humans. Effortlessly kills men and women from sheer strength). Large Town level with Magic (Able to make devastating winter snowstorms, dark clouds, and tornados with its weather changing. Can make and transform into a hurricane)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Travel Speed: Subsonic (Described as having the speed of the wind)

Combat Speed: Subsonic (Able to get the jump on people rather easily and catch them as they try to run)

Reaction Speed: Subsonic

Lifting Strength: At least Superhuman

Striking Strength: At least Wall Class

Durability: At least Wall level

Stamina: Extremely high (Can stalk prey for hours without tiring)

Range: Extended melee range physically. Kilometers with abilities.

Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Type 1; Able to live and hunt for eternity as long as it is constantly able to feed), Enhanced Senses (Have incredibly keen eyesight, sense of smell, and hearing. Accurately tracks and knows the movements of prey of every inch for miles on end. Can sense the fear of individuals and capitalize on it), Stealth Mastery (Capable of stalking individuals for hours on end without being noticed. Knows its terrain inch by inch and uses it to become completely undetectable by any means), Large Size (Type 0; Said to be fifteen feet tall if not bigger), Light Manipulation (Its eyes can naturally glow and illuminate), limited Size Manipulation (Its size becomes proportionally bigger as it eats more), Non-Corporeal (Is said to exist as just a spirit. Some versions describe it as being made purely out of coldness), Possibly Space-Time Manipulation (Can potentially bend space and time in order to fast travel and catch its prey), Possession (Can possess humans and transform them into other Wendigos), Corruption (Turns other people into Wendigos if it bites them), Invisibility (It was said to be so thin it could not be seen from the side. Can become invisible at will), Flight, Natural Weaponry (Has naturally hardened claws of ice and sharp teeth), Air Manipulation, Weather Manipulation, and Ice Manipulation (Can create heavy weather conditions that lead to stormy clouds, tornadoes, winter storms, etc.), Water Walking (Notably walks on water without ever sinking), Shapeshifting (Can take the form of other animals), Magic (Can control things such as weather conditions with dark magic), Disease Manipulation (Some stories imply it can inflict people with this in order to further famine), Consumption (Type 1; Can endlessly consume different things with humans as its favorite in order to keep growing), Mind Manipulation (Some stories say it induces Wendigo psychosis which causes irrational cannibalistic tendencies to the psyche), Morality Manipulation, Fear Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Resistance to cold temperatures (Unaffected by the cold winter temperatures)

Standard Equipment: None notable

Intelligence: Gifted (Able to stalk individuals for hours on end without even being noticed despite its size. Remarked as having numerous skills and powers to become a near-perfect hunter. Can easily use these abilities to play a game of cat and mouse until it has instilled so much fear into people that they will feel completely helpless and just try to run from it)

Standard Tactics: Wendigos will typically try to stealth out their opponents in order to kill or possess them. They will manipulate the weather conditions to be favorable such as heavy winter storms where you can barely see anything and feel cold. After setting up these conditions, they will remain out of sight and observe their prey from a far distance through invisibility, shapeshifting, or their general stealth. This will force their prey into being cold and starving, with a building fear they set up. When they know the time is right, they will let out a high-pitched yell to alert their prey that their time has come to an end. They are likely to straight-up kill people or just possess them.

Weaknesses: They are very vulnerable to fire due to having icy hearts. It typically can be used to harm them, but melting or destroying their icy hearts will effectively kill them. Has to constantly feed or else it will die from starvation.

Note: Interpretations from the different Native American tribes and Canadian settlers are used for this profile.

Explanations

Possession:

Wendigos are able notably able to choose to possess people they can across instead of necessarily killing them instead. Those who are possessed by them will also become a Wendigo.

• “It was a large creature, as tall as a tree, with a lipless mouth and jagged teeth. Its breath was a strange hiss, its footprints full of blood, and it ate any man, woman or child who ventured into its territory. And those were the lucky ones. Sometimes, the Wendigo chose to possess a person instead, and then the luckless individual became a Wendigo himself, hunting down those he had once loved and feasting upon their flesh.”

Light Manipulation:

Their eyes naturally emit light and glow within the night. This may vary depending on interpretations between yellow and even red, but they usually have these distinctive, glowing eyes.

• “The Wendigo is generally said to have glowing eyes, long yellowed fangs, terrible claws, and overly long tongues.”

Immortality:

Hunting is what they typically do, and it has been noted they can hunt for eternity. This is to satisfy their hunger as they would die otherwise.

• “Wendigos are said to be cursed to wander the land, eternally seeking to fulfill their voracious appetite for human flesh and if there is nothing left to eat, it starves to death.”

Weather Manipulation, Air Manipulation, Ice Manipulation, & Magic:

Weather is one of the main abilities that the Wendigo has a specialty in with it using it for its perfect cover in stealth. It is notable that these changes stem from it utilizing dark magic.

• “The creature is said to have a number of skills and powers including stealth, is a near-perfect hunter, knows and uses every inch of its territory, and can control the weather through the use of dark magic. They are also portrayed as simultaneously gluttonous and emaciated from starvation.”

Through the weather, they can create different types of conditions to best suit their needs. They typically use it to whirl up violent snowstorms, though they can make other things such as tornadoes too.

• “It is said that an angry wendigo can cause the sky to darken and extreme weather such as harsh winter winds, tornadoes, and blizzards.”

Corruption:

Though they can change other people into Wendigos too by possessing them, they can also make this happen by biting them as well. It is similar to how vampires turn others in concept.

• “Its main attribute is that it eats people and can transfer that affliction to any it bites – the parallels with European myths concerning Vampires are obvious.”

Large Size:

Wendigos have been noted to be very big in size within folklore. Compared to humans, they were seen as giants that completely towered over them.

• “This creature has long been known among the Algonquian Ojibwe, Eastern Cree, Saulteaux, Westmain Swampy Cree, Naskapi, and Innu peoples who have described them as giants, many times larger than human beings.”

The amount has been clarified to be around fifteen feet tall for how big they are. Some sources claim they are even bigger, though this is the most consistent height for them.

• “Native American versions of the creature spoke of a gigantic spirit, over fifteen feet tall, that had once been human but had been transformed into a creature by the use of magic.”

Enhanced Senses & Water Walking:

They are noted to have exceptional senses such as eyesight, smell, and hearing. They use these senses all across different terrain, even when walking on water which they supposedly never sink on.

• “Windigos are usually credited with exceptional eyesight, hearing and sense of smell. They are said to move with the speed of the wind and have the ability to walk across deep snow or even over open water without sinking.”

Their senses are so spectacular that it allows them to detect the presence of entities through smell and know their complete movements from hearing over numerous miles away.

• “It has heightened senses that allow it to tune into every inch of its hunting grounds (which often extend for many miles on end). Its sense of sight, smell, and hearing are so impressive that it is able to track its prey and know the exact movements of its target even if it is many miles away.”

Invisibility & Flight:

The Wendigo possesses multiple lesser-known, yet useful abilities for masking its presence entirely. They are notable enough to the point it can go completely unnoticed.

• “Although a wendigo is able to exist in the physical world, it is actually a spirit form. Like many spirits, the wendigo has the ability to become invisible, fly, become undetectable, or possess humans.”

Mind Manipulation:

In history, there were cases where people were overcome with cannibalistic desires because of starvation within winter, named Wendigo psychosis. In some of the folklore, this condition is thought to have been caused by exposure to the Wendigo itself.

• “This illness was thought to occur when a person had been exposed to the malevolent spirit of the wendigo and was feared more than death itself. In fact, it was considered to be better to kill oneself than to succumb to cannibalistic desires and risk becoming a wendigo.”

Stealth Mastery:

Stealth is one of the main traits of the Wendigo, as it knows the territory inch by inch to use its stealth and get around the area very easily.

• “The creature is said to have a number of skills and powers including stealth, is a near-perfect hunter, knows and uses every inch of its territory, and can control the weather through the use of dark magic. They are also portrayed as simultaneously gluttonous and emaciated from starvation.”

It uses its senses to help know the terrain and use it as a perfect hunting ground to observe and strike people, along with becoming completely undetectable to anybody trying to find it.

• “Although a wendigo is able to exist in the physical world, it is actually a spirit form. Like many spirits, the wendigo has the ability to become invisible, fly, become undetectable, or possess humans.”

Capable of doing so for hours, the Wendigo uses its stealth to maintain cover while also making their prey feel more paranoid and fear toward them. This serves to help them catch them off guard and make them terrified enough to run rather than try to fight back.

• “Although the wendigo is always seeking to fill a deep hunger, it enjoys taking its time before a kill. It will often stalk its prey for hours on end and will reveal its presence in small ways every so often in order to make its prey fearful. A person who is being stalked by a wendigo will often feel a growing sense of dread that they are being watched or followed. The wendigo is able to sense their fear and paranoia grow with each heartbeat. This brings the malevolent spirit a sense of excitement and anticipation for the kill.”'

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