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Published: 2012-08-30 00:59:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 14202; Favourites: 204; Downloads: 0
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This is a Wendigo, and this was another problematic creature to depict. Some legends say it is a antlered undead four legged elk monster. Others say it is a human ghost. And another said they were wolf like. All of them say they are cannibals. In modern pop-fantasy-culture they are sometimes depicted as sasquatch-like but this is baseless so I ignored it completely. As differing depictions sometimes happen I just averaged them out to sort of depict them both, but I didn’t use the wolf version. I already have werewolves and I don’t need something that seems almost exactly like a werewolf. And also, it doesn’t seem very undead to turn into a wolf : /… I figured a floating humanoid undead with some elk parts would be fine.Related content
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Is this your OC? Can I take inspiration from it (semblance) for my upcoming video game?
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I didn't design this or make up a Wendigo.
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ever read the monstumologist? in book two a wendigo was the antagonist...i think... its pretty confusing but a must-read by my ratings.
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Very unique monsters they are.
And besides turning people into cannibals, do they also possess dead bodies in Indian burial grounds?
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Ever read Pet Sematary? it said that a Wendigo soured the ground and cursed it. And do you think Gage, Rachel, Timmy and Gus (from the film version's sequel)'s dead bodies were possessed by this demon spirit? afterall Gage did ate a bit of his mother once he killed her.
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I dunno'. Wendigos are a nebulous creature. From giant winter apes to wolf stag monsters. They're hard to pin down.
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i know in some versions they have no feet cause they move so fast they tore them off at the ankle, cause they cannot stop or something
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I've seen those in the D&D version, but haven't read anything in "proper" myth (if you can even say that term seriously) sources that touch upon this. not yet at least.
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I read at least one folktale in which that was something mentioned, or ,maybe it was some other kind of book documenting these kinds of things. DnD didn't make that part up.
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That's purely pop-culture made by World of Warcraft, which I love that game (but me and WoW are fighting right now and I quit for the time being). Other than that, I have heard that the legend of the Wendigo MAY have spawned from big-foot. But here we have a problem, a myth spawned from "sightings" of another myth? Discretion at this point, I feel, is necessary; since neither are real (yet?) it's safe to assume they should be established as separate creatures. Especially when you considered the wild and varied depictions of the Wendigo in the first place that are nothing like giganticus pithecus, a large bipedal primate, supposedly the real explanation for the Yeti, Sasquatch, Big-Foot, Potemkin, etc...
But listen, man, don't take what I say as an attempt to be "accurate". this is just for my gaming world.
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yeah you are probably right, although i have heard the bigfoot connection before WoW came out ( i was actually quite little) but i think it was something along the lines of what you mentioned, that someone heard the stories of the wendigo and for some reason decided it was a bigfoot kind thingy ( thats really what marvel comics did actually with their wendigo, its a bigfoot kinda thingy)
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Marvel *shudders* that was a restarted Wendigo. I'm sure Native Americans were like, "What?"
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I love the design. Had always a thing for skulls and antlers.
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Ah, interesting treatment--even as ethereal spirits, I hadn't thought of them as undead before. You've certainly drawn something that I wouldn't want to see in a dark forest.
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I know right? I always thought they were supposed to be horrifying. D&D has them as fey. That's retarted. Fey aren't very horrifying and the legend says they are dead canibal humans. Humans aren't fey, alive or dead.
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Actually, as of 4ed and the Demonomicon, they're body-less demons who possess and mutate humans, transforming them into demonic cannibals.
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Allegedly there is a kind of psychosis named after this creature.
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Similay to the design I had in mind, save I had no horns involved nor did I have hooves in mind.
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I didn't want to put the honrs, but they said elk stuff and so i added them, just to "average" out the depictions.
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Interesting. For the SSU wendigos are feral cousins of sasquatches.
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Sasquaches are feral already, strange. But very neat
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i would guess it means that they are generalyl peaceful creature. wendigos being more aggressive.
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I can see that. Blizzard did that with WoW.
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i always imagined wendigos as just being formless, entities of speed and wind itself.
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Well in all the descriptions i heard they had a form. About three differing ones, wolf, elk or tormented human. What they ARE, I guess are cursed humans who have eaten the flesh of other hmans. And they are undead. Undead humans at that. Most undead humans can't shape change, they are somehow tied to the "curse" or torment they are in; gho0st appear as they were in life and not a dog or alien or toaster or anything else, same with wraiths, they seem to be black shrouds of semi humanoid evil, nd more examples I'm sure you already know. Some undead can shape change, like vampires and mummies, but they are not TRUE shape changers, they just don't pop into any form they want to. Vampires can't shoose to look like other humans if they want, nor cen they choose to morph into a Winabego or book. The "curse" is ties to certain forms, like bats, wolves, gaseious form, etc...they somehow relate to the darkness of the vampire.
The most formless undead i can think of are Woll o wisps, they're just little balls of unlife.
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