Wendigo: Difference between revisions
m
→[[Tabletop RPG]]: clean up
m (update links) |
m (→[[Tabletop RPG]]: clean up) |
||
Line 71:
* ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]'', the [[Spiritual Successor]] of ''Werewolf: The Apocalypse'', has the [[Prestige Class|Lodge]] of Wendigo, where most of the members have a somewhat lax attitude towards the whole "don't eat the flesh of men, wolves, or werewolves" taboo. Especially since they have rituals that grant them access to special knowledge if they sample a bit of another's flesh.
* As noted above, ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' includes Ithaqua as a possible menace for player-characters to <s> face</s> run away from really really fast.
* [[Magical Native American|Native American legends?]] Check. [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|Superstition and folklore?]] Check. ''[[Deadlands]]'' example? Check! Wendigoes are something of a [[Stock Monsters|Stock Monster]] in the Weird and Wasted Wests. And no surprise, given that {{spoiler|cannibalism falls under the direct purview of one of the [[Big Bad
** There's also a variant wendigo that is created not by cannibalism, but by food hoarding. If a hoarder causes others to starve to death because of his greed and selfishness, he runs the risk of being wendigofied.
* The tamanous in ''[[Chill]]'' was a similar cannibalism-promoting Native American monster, which resembled a warrior's corpse partially covered in tar.
| |||