Wendigo Physiology

Wendigo Physiology
Spirit of the Winter, the North, coldness, famine and starvation.
Power/Ability to:	Use the traits of wendigo.

"The Weendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tautly 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 Weendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody [....] Unclean and suffering from suppurations of the flesh, the Weendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption."

― Basil Johnston, an Ojibwe teacher and scholar

The power to use the abilities of wendigo. Variation of Mythic Physiology.

Also Called

• Manaha Physiology
• Weendigo/Wihtikow/Windago/Windiga/Windigo/Witiko Physiology

Capabilities

User with this ability either is or can transform into a Wendigo: a malevolent cannibalistic spirit strongly associated with the Winter, the North and coldness, as well as with famine and starvation. It was variously a malevolent cannibalistic spirit that could possess humans or a monster that humans could physically transform into, with those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk.

General form tends towards emaciated gauntness, looking and smelling as if recently disinterred from the grave, size ranges from human to gigantic.

Applications

• Animal Manipulation
• Cold Immunity
• Enhanced Agility
• Enhanced Bite
• Enhanced Dexterity
• Enhanced Durability/Invulnerability
• Enhanced Endurance
• Enhanced Immunity
• Enhanced Jump
• Enhanced Lung Capacity
• Enhanced Reflexes
• Enhanced Senses
• Enhanced Speed
• Enhanced Strength
• Infinite Digestive System
• Matter Ingestion
• Possession
• Regenerative Healing Factor

Variations

• Cannibalism Empowerment
• Consumptive Growth
• Natural Weaponry
• Spirit Physiology
• May learn Weather Manipulation as they age.

Associations

• Famine Embodiment - Wendigos represent hunger and starvation.
• Mythic Physiology
• Native American Deity Physiology
• Space-Time Manipulation - some Wendigos are said to be able to bend space and time to get it's victims.
• Winter Manipulation

Limitations

• Many users have cannibalistic urges, especially if they gained this power by traditional means, ie. ritualistic cannibalism.

Known Users

See Also: Wendigo

• Wendigo (Marvel)
• Michael Fleet (Marvel)
• Wendigo (Algonquian Mythology)
• Ithaqua the Wind-Walker (Cthulhu Mythos)
• Lorenzo Scoggins (Marvel)
• Andre Mornet (Marvel)
• Paul Cartier (Marvel)
• Georges Baptiste (Marvel)
• Francois Lartigue (Marvel)
• Mauvais (Marvel)
• Jersey/The Jersey Devil (A Wolf Among Us)
• Windiga (Dark Was The Night/Monster Hunter)
• Wendigo (Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor)
• Agent Fallon (Charmed)
• Wendigomon (Digimon Series)
• Wendigo (Supernatural)
• Wendigo (Fear Itself)
• Captain John Boyd (Ravenous)
• Colonel Ives/F.W. Colqhoun (Ravenous)
• Rabid (ROBLOX)
• Wendigo (Hellboy)
• The Beast (Over the Garden Wall)
• Joseph Corbin (Sleepy Hollow)
• Wendigos (Until Dawn)
  • Hannah Washington
  • Josh Washington (possibly)
  • Billy Bates
  • Makkapitew
• Windigoes (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
• Wendigo (Grimm)
  • Jeffrey Dahmer
  • Andrei Chikatilo
  • John Kreski
  • Miles Kreski
• Wendigo (Teen Wolf)
• Sean Walcott (Teen Wolf)
• Wendigo (Monster Girl Encyclopedia)

Gallery

Ithaqua the Wind-Walker (Cthulhu Mythos)

Wendigo (Supernatural)

Wendigo (Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor)

Wendigo (Marvel)

Wendigo (Hellboy)

Wendigos (Until Dawn) are a supernatural race of monsters that manifest when a human commits cannibalism on Blackwood Mountain due to the presence of the malevolent spirit Makkapitew.

The Makkapitew (Until Dawn) is a malevolent spirit that haunts Blackwood Mountain and is responsible for the existence of the Wendigos that prowl his forests.

After nearly falling to her death off of a cliff, Hannah Washington (Until Dawn) was forced to eat her sister Beth's corpse to survive...

...forcing her transformation into a Wendigo.

Josh Washington (Until Dawn) becoming a Wendigo.

Billy Bates (Until Dawn) was forced to eat the bodies of dead miners to survive being trapped in the mines, turning him in to a Wendigo.

Windigoes (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)

Sean Walcott (Teen Wolf)

Monster Girl Wendigo.jpg

Wendigo (Monster Girl Encyclopedia)

Windiga (Dark Was The Night/Monster Hunter)