Wendigo

Wendigo

Naming
Others	The Evil That Devours
Morphology
Body type	Humanoid
Average height	Various
Intelligence
Sentience	Sentient
Sapience	Sapient
Aggressivity	Hostile
Ecology
Place of origin	North America
Habitat	Northern Forests
Diet	Carnivore
Locomotion	Bipedal
Lifespan	Ageless
Behind the Scenes
Universe	Real

The Wendigo, also known as the American Cannibal, is a ominous, spiritual creature often described in Native American Legends, more commonly within the Algonquin Mythos. It is often depicted in other forms of media under similar circumstances to the true legend.

Description[]

The Wendigo is a very tall, sickly thin creature depicted mostly as a Human-like animal with a decomposing deer head, antlers and all. The rest of the body is extremely thin, some depictions describing the chest and stomach cavity as completely exposed, only held back by the creature's own rib cage.

It is often associated with a disease called Wendigo Psychosis, which is a severe mental condition in which people develop a taste for their own kind's flesh, even with a readily supply of food available to them. Those that suffer from this describe as being under a very powerful, malevolent force, believing to belong to the Wendigo itself. Some have also added this state to such conditions such as isolationism and Cabin Fever.

Many tribes of the Algonquin culture state that the creature is birthed through acts of cannibalism, and people who practice this act will eventually turn into a Wendigo and will suffer everlasting hunger for all eternity. The Wendigo, in modern culture, is believed as a warning creature to not perform the act.