Monster Monday: Wendigo
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- Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2024
- Welcome back to another Monster Monday: A series where I'll be drawing a monster from Dungeons and Dragons while I talk about it's lore, history in the real world and what they're like to use as a DM or fight as a player.
In this video, I talk about Wendigos; Native American flesh-eating spirits!
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I think I'd give this creature more of a psychological horror and stealth focus. Long before the characters actually face the Wendigo, they *feel* it as it stalks them just at the edge of perception and telekinetically whispers dark thoughts and desires into their minds, gradually pushing them to increasingly vile and depraved acts of consumption. Every time a character or npc gives in, they draw closer to transforming into a Wendigo themselves.
And then the Barbarian ate the monster
I'm picturing something like the bear from Annihalation. Maybe they're lured into the forest by someone screaming "Help me!". Lured being the operative word in this context.
I know its not an official monster but I'd love to see you cover the false hydra!
And if we're going native American forklore I like to hear more, may be about the Thunderbird
Wonderful suggestion, Gaming Knight! I'll make sure that these are on my "to draw list" for you! I've heard of the Thunderbird before, and I'm not sure if stats exist or not, but I'd love to cover these creatures.
Thanks so much for suggesting and for watching!
I can just imagine walking into a town hall and finding this Wendigo hunched over gnawing on the bones of the villagers. Before peeking over it's shoulder to see your characters frozen in fear
Had no idea there was a stat block for these.
Great news I actually have a monster suggestion for you today. Jungle Giants, they appeared in 2E and in Pathfinder 1E incase your curious. I feel their designs in 2E are a bit uninspired, but I am positive that I am positive, that you can come up with something far more interesting and unique.
This is one of my favorite creatures of mythology. I love the portrayal of this creature as the personification of doing terrible things out of desperation. I've heard the story of a Native American woman who ate her own children to make it through the winter before morphing into the wendigo. Love the illustration. The nightingale is another creature I find awesome. It had such a tragic story that actually ties into Baba Yaga. The glowing eye really pulled the piece together. You used contrast really well with that. Have a great life!
Thanks so much Apocalyptic Moth! That's a super grim tale about the Native American woman, but it definitely feels appropriate here.
Thank you for your kind words and for sharing!
One of my favorite monsters. I've homebrew three versions of them and they are one of the major enemies in my campaign.
I love the Wendigo, one of my favorite supernatural creatures.
And I love the design you put into it.
Fantastic Job as always, sir.
another great video
Thanks very much Rohan!
Hey mate, I love all your videos your art is stunning, you put in a lot of hard work and it shows!
Thank you so much, Ragnarok! That's extremely kind of you. Thank you for watching!
I saw a D&D stream that featured a windego.
One player hypnotized it with dancing lights while the others stuffed a ton of explosive arrows into its cloak, doused it in lamp oil, and lit it up like the 4th of July.
Haha! That's one way to deal with it for sure!!
Cheers for watching.
I’m making a habit of not-so-pretty monsters, Would love to see you draw the Gibbering mouther :3 another fantastical Monday, thanks!
I might do my own dragon December, even though I’m away for a bit. I’ll send the results if I do have a go :3
Gibbering monster is already done. Very horrifying
@@shadowhunter240 it was one of the best ones too, with some rp sprinkled in!
Might wanna check the back catalogue before asking for something he’s already made.
ah, it seems I missed it, thanks for informing me :3
Only because I can compare this to what I know well enough: this is reminiscent of the Minotaur (the original version). Not in appearance so much, but the lore.
I would absolutely love to see a combination of your pictures and your lore available as an in-game monster manual
Have you ever thought about compiling all your pictures into a PDF for purchase
If anyone is interested in finding a miniature that matches the description up to 5:20min.
Privateer Press makes a miniature called the Lord of the Feast.
I don’t play dungeons and dragons, I just watch for facts and inspiration for my own creatures
Hell yes! A whole month of Dragons! I can't wait to see your interpretation of a Blue Dragon. They're definitely my favorite
In one of my recent game I made a Behir that had learned to a stock of treasure outside it's mountain cave. Of course dragons being dragons tried to take the treasure and all got shot out of the sky. This in turn leads to my players getting hired by a dragon acquaintance of theirs to go and kill it with the reward of a part of it's treasure. There you go, free side quest, have fun.
Thanks so much Michael! That sounds like a really fun idea!
Cheers for watching and for sharing!
That was a amazing job that you did drawing the wendigo. It looks truly menacing.
And to tie into what you mentioned toward the end of the video. In some the legends if someone is driven to commit cannibalism then they can get infected by the spirit of the wendigo.
Once again you are doing amazing keep up the good work!!!
Love it. About your questions if how we handle Wendigos and Lycanthropes. I never really used a Wendigo but I think I'll buy the Creature Codex and use one. They look really cool.
Also great work as always
Okay so after 6 MONTHS of not playing d&d I finally get to play weekly on Mondays again as the forever dm and i’m so excited 😂
I accidentally went crazy and made to many different options with out enough time to properly prepare the encounters.🤣
So obviously i’ma suggest that good old Will-o’-wisp or Wraith :) thanks so much for what you do!
Finally! I was starting to believe you were never going to draw my mom!
Next you should try drawing the Nuckelavee the nastiest demon of the of the Scottish northern isles. It's quite like the Wendigo in its sheer horror factor
My goodness, yes! I love these guys. I live in Scotland, and used to be a tour guide here, so I have some pretty fun stories of these guys under my belt. I've been so excited to draw one as well. Thanks for suggesting them and for watching!
I can really recommend the "Ebon Ward North" series of the channel "Surpriseroundrpg" on twitch. Its a horror adventure about wendigos and hunger. Havent watched the this video here yet, but wanted to recomend it as soon as possible.
Oh no way! I must admit, I've not really explored Twitch that much, but I'll definitely give this a go! Thank you so much for sharing and for watching!
My group fought a Wendigo last week, the DM made a custom version of it and the effect that I liked the most was that it passively changed the weather with its presence and caused blizzards which it then hid in and would abduct people in the low visibility.
That's both cool and terrifying, Trevor! Did your character manage to survive their encounter?
Cheers for watching!
This one was cool Josh! Cannot wait for Dragon December 🙌🏻🙌🏻🐲🐲🐉🐉
Goodness. This is pure refined talent. Such an inspiration.
Well, now. One of my players is an Eladrin Ranger, who has picked up a book containing recipes for human and humanoid flesh. I expected the party to destroy it, but she kept it.
And now she has a nemesis to deal with... nice work! Love this - it’s horrifying!
I've recently used a Wendigo in my campaign using the Demogorgan rules from the stranger things starter set though during the fight it's feeling like it's a bit weaker than it should be. What I'm considering is using that ruleset for a recently created wendigo and then taking that base ruleset and amping it up to be much better for a wendigo that's been around for a bit more of a while and has grown stronger.
I love the owl talons you gave it, seems really fitting. I wouldn't have Wendigos be directly contagious like werebeasts; rather, I would have it that anywhere the Wendigo frequently travels is contaminated by its curse. If you take a long rest in a contaminated area, you need to save or be cursed. If you are cursed, you will gradually weaken over time, while craving humanoid flesh. Committing cannibalism prevents you from weakening, but also makes you start transforming into a Wendigo.
I’m hoping at some point that we can see a balor/balrog show up at some point in time
The Antler horns are supposedly resulted of someone confusing Wendigo with Jersey Devil.
Oooohhh the Jersey Devil! I so want to research that! What a great connection to make. Thank you for your insight.
This is what a wind ego should look like. It looks so deprived and horrifying, which is exactly what this thing should be like.
One of my players had ties to a wendigo that was from her home before she left for her life of adventure. Though it would of been amazing to use it, the character was killed when the party was betrayed by one of their allies. Everyone was pretty damn sad when she faded away, but now that player is playing a death cleric that he is having a blast with!
Just used one but made it have improved invisibility. They also didn't attack they just had effects that drew characters to attack one another to eat them, and soiled all their food. Exhaustion rules for lack of food made things very touch and go. Party even split once several members had two or three levels of exhaustion. They never saw the creature, just heard it and saw signs of it. If a character cannibalized another character in the Wendigo's presence, they then also became a Wendigo.
To be entirely honest, I've just discovered this series today. I have finals to study for, but I've watched 9 of these instead... Priorities!
Im hoping to still have the chance to root for the BOGGLE. Because just now i could see this one
I homebrewed a statblock for my Curse of Strahd game. My Wendigo didn't do much physical damage, nor could it take all that much punishment. It could retreat without oppurtunity attacks and sneak around, using aura abilities to torment and infect the PCs, corrupting them into attacking each other
Oooohhhh, these guys would fit in so well in a Strahd campaign! Great idea Friendly Two3!
Gotta love wendigos. I drew up some homebrew stats for a less powerful version a little while ago. Really liked the idea of a sort of insidious predator luring people in with mimicry and darting between shadows, and gave it a possessing ability upon death. Also thought it would be fun to try out what sort of wendigo might be created if someone were to succumb to cannibalism stranded in the desert or marooned at sea, and made some fun variants (CRs may not be accurate).
www.evernote.com/shard/s317/sh/d77bb7e1-b6e5-4b8b-8765-6b0dbe308487/70298b7d5ad083699b64ee55e26da9db
Ya know what Wendigo's probably stalk though? Shrubs, perhaps they could be awakened
Good lord I think you're right! Haha! I'll make sure to boost your shrubulent suggestion in the "to draw" list!
Cheers for watching!
My dm actually recently did something with a contagious Wendigo. It spread a plague called Wendigo Psychosis that was a lot like rabies. It had 4 stages:
Day 1: Roll on the short term madness chart
Day 2: You are now deathly afraid of water and must hydrate yourself by drinking the blood of humanoids
Day 3: The Wendigo now has a psychic connection with you and can try to command you to do it's bidding
Day 4: Death
Might have gotten a it slightly wrong as I don't have the list of effects on me, but it's pretty brutal. The disease (which is really more of a curse) spreads like a zombie virus. After they die on the 4th day they come back as an undead thrall of the Wendigo
That's a really cool idea, Wildlemon! I like the brutality of this. It makes the Wendigo an environmental threat rather than just a creature to fight! Way more challenging!
Thank you for sharing and for watching.
@@ArcaneForge Yeah it's been pretty brutal lol, but that's the kinda dnd I like so it's been fun. Also love Monster Monday's! Normally watch them first thing Monday morning when I wake up
I just finished my homebrew wendigo (the og version) and my elder wendigo (this version)-- the fights revolve around giving its enemies wendigo psychosis-- which even if they defeat it, in seven days they will become possessed by the spirit of the wendigo and start eating each other
it would be cool to see you drawing minecraft mobs ( but like irl )
That sounds like a really cool idea, Knezo! I've been thinking about homebrewing a creeper into the game for a while so maybe I'll do that for you! Cheers for the suggestion and for watching!
@@ArcaneForge wow ,no problem glad you like it
I would really like to see a mummy next! I'm planning on using one in my campaign and I would love to see a concept art and it would be very helpful for the upcoming battle!
(The wendigo looks amazing btw)
Thank you so much, Peyton! I'm really looking forward to researching these guys! I'm obsessed with ancient Egypt, even though Ive not actually used one of these guys in game!
It hasn't appeared in my game yet (luckily for my players), but I've made the wendigo a "reward" for being a loyal follower of the demon lord Yeenoghu, sort of like a flind. They're something that a cult or gnoll warband would just have caged up until a big battle where they then just let it go and run buck wild killing as it pleases or as an assassin for a smaller group. Just give the wendigo the scent and it'll do the rest.
PLEASE TELL ME THERE'S A STAT BLOCK FOR THIS AND HOW AND WHERE DO I GET TO IT
Terentius Moonborn the Kobold Press’s Creature Codex has the stat block. Along woth MANY MANY other stat blocks that are very amazing and helpful for a DM.
@@paigewhitney2118 You're a saint and angel, thank you so much! I have an amazing idea for a horror campaign now! I can't wait til next Halloween..
@@MoonbornUwU you may want to also look at Frog God Games's Tome of Horrors. That book - I THINK (I would need to look again) may have one. It also has a LOT of amazing horror type monsters to fill out a campaign!
Thank you for sharing, Paige! You beat me to it! I would 100% recommend these books by the way Terentius!
I know that it isn’t a d&d creature, but, have you heard the Scottish myth of the selkie? For those who don’t know, they are seals, but when they go on land, they take off their seal skin to reveal a beautiful (naked) woman. If a man finds the seal skin, they now own the woman and can have children with her (the kids will always have a longing to be with the sea) if the woman finds her skin she puts it back on and goes back to the sea. Honestly I love selkies
I do indeed know of Selkies! I live up here in Scotland and was a tourguide here for a long time. I absolutely LOVE Scottish legends and would be thrilled to cover them for you! Thank you so much for the amazing suggestion and for watching!
I was curious if you'd include the antlers or not. I'd want to sync up the legends with the modern interpretation somehow. Maybe their true form has antlers but they can only enter the Material Plane as spirits possessing those who have tasted human flesh? I heard of a theory that the description of a wendigo would fit a frostbitten corpse if left undisturbed, so it could only happen in truly inhospitable conditions (no scavengers) where only starvation and cannibalism could be the cause. IDK how true that is, but it was a spooky idea. So they could be devils contracted to punish cannibals with a terrible hunger. they could also be either allies or rivals of Doresain, the Demon of Ghouls under Orcus.
I love the owls' take, though, as a way to honor the old myths. Well, maybe, lol. Myths are complicated and its almost more a window into our own psychology how we see that sort of old art. Great video!
Thanks so much James! You've had some incredible ideas here! I'll definitely be fleshing out my descriptions of these creatures in game with some of your insights there!
Cheers for watching, for your kind compliments and for watching!
@@ArcaneForge Oh shoot i better re-watch if you thanked me twice :D love your stuff man! Keep up the good work.
I've never used the wendigo in my campaigns because I've always seen it as a nature spirit or an arcfey so I never seen the need to make it a statblock. But if I did be horrorfing
Inspiring as always :)
Death Knight please!
i would love to seee you draw some of the sorrowsworn and talk about how to use them
I’d really like to see your take on the demon lord Eltab, lord of the Hidden Layer.
That sounds really exciting, Alfie! I'll make sure to look into this one for you.
Thanks so much for watching and for your suggestion!
As a fan of mythology, especially native american, I really love how you go over the history
Thanks so much, Anne! I'm a huuuge mythology fan. I love getting the chance to explore myths that I'm unfamiliar with, so this was great fun!
Thanks so much for watching.
@@ArcaneForge right! Mythology is just the best! I write stories for fun and am constantly pulling from some myth or an other. Now my army of baby sister's decided I'd played d&d long enough to DM a game at home so they can join. So I guess I get to tie it in there too. Any advice on an ocean campaign?
Mwah! Mwah! Perfectico!
I created a cr3, 9, and 15 version
May we please get a video on the "False Hydra" ?
I'm really excited about covering this one, Archonia!
Cannot decide what i like more, your versions of monstrous humanoids/Goblinoids or these inhuman beasts (Yeenoghu, Gnoll even Krampus)
Since you're drawing an unofficial beast in this video, I can't help but wonder what would be your interpretation of fan favorite homebrew monster False Hydra
I found a cr6 one and threw it against my level 5 party and I'll tell you that if I didnt pull some punches then they would have been TPKed
Wow thats creepy man, love it.
A while back I suggested the Brain Golem. Since you you mentioned you wanted a source, and I didn't provide one earlier, here it is. forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_golem
Sick
It would be great to see ratfolk/skaven of some sort. Pack rats, sewer rats, ect, make fun adventurors.
The contagious effect is a great idea. I haven't gotten much beyond wikipedia, but it sounds like, in many of the myths, a wendigo used to be a person. The change is their greed and excess in life causing them to go full cannibal. There is a (somewhat disputed) mental condition called "wendigo psychosis" associated with the myths. In it, people believe they have become a wendigo and behave accordingly.
This video also has good roleplay ideas for a Wendigo as a sort of brutal wereworlf, hiding in society: ruclips.net/video/8j-R71s5044/видео.html
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Great pic, I really like the old blood and the eyes
If you're interested in mythology you'd might like the youtube channels overly-sarcastic-productions and extra-credits.
Styrax OSP is awesome.
I've not heard of overly-sarcastic-productions, but I'm a huuuuugggee fan of Extra-credits. I think I watch their videos almost every day! Thank you so much for sharing, I'll have to take a look and expand my lore binging!
Cheers for watching!
How about half dragon there a lot of idra you can do
Sounds like a great call, Josh! I'll make sure they're on my "to draw" list for you!
Cheers for your suggestion and for watching.
Pls do a carrion crawler gonna keep commenting this on all ur monster monday videos 😅
I'm so excited for this one (even if it'll creep me out!!). You post it as much as you like! You're only boosting its way up the priority list!
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ARe you following the FTC/COPPA gate at RUclips?
I'm following what I can. A lot of my favourite channels...specifically those who deal with miniature model painting are very nervous about being affected. I don't think D&D channels are likely to be affected very much as the game and its lore are so geared towards older audiences, but we're forced to make sure when we upload that we notify youtube if our video will be aimed at children. So it's been implemented very quickly.
What are your thoughts?
Famine: Happens
First Nations: Starve
Wendigo: Allow me to introduce myself