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There is a day and age where the beliefs of long lost tribes of the Native Americans have become physically manifest, and there are people who see the Earth through gifted eyes. These people have come to be known as Spirit Walkers - humans with the ability to connect physically with their spirit animal and embody the flesh of the creature thereof. This happens through a process called a Spiritual Awakening, only occurring within a highly small percentage of the human race and in fact is not widely known about across the world... Only those with the power to transform typically know about it, other than the scrape or two they may have had with the Mortal human outsider by happenstance. But there have been cases of a Spiritual Awakening going awry and causing the person to undergo a transformation that is a heinous figure compared to the average Spirit Animal. This hellish being is not a normal product of the psyche. Unlike a peaceful Spirit Animal, this thing fights against its vessel, eliciting emotions of cannibalism, gluttony, hatred, and rage out of their human counterparts; it is called, the Wendigo....

The Wendigo, a creature originating from the depths of Algonquian Native American folklore, told to have the flesh of a rotting beast, yet harbor the heart of a harrowed human. So the legend goes, should the soul of a man be overcome with greed or blood-lust, a demon will surface to claim his corrupted vessel, to take man’s body and mind, and will him to feed off of the innocent. It has also been said that one can be taken over through a more sinister means, in which the behavioral properties of the disease is spread through the air - much like a virus - souring the civility in ones human nature, turning it into pure animalistic violence and rage. This particular process is called Wendigo Psychosis. While there have been many tales tethered together and twisted by the tongues of timeless townsfolk, the question of whether or not the myth reins true is still unknown...

They have often been associated with winter, the north, famine, and starvation throughout history; the Wendigo is a beast of burden, never satisfied, constantly hungry for fresh meat, and always bringing with them death and destruction. In some stories the people stained with the blood of the Wendigo have been said to invoke environmental eradication as well, either by tainting the minds of others around them to do their tyrannical bidding, or by disturbing the natural structure of the ecosystem should they linger in an area for too long. The truth of how the legend came to be had long been lost within the minds of the past tribes which first encountered the immortal being, but as the early colonists migrated to their lands, the people became more educated in European ideologies through the years, and adapted to less rural ways of living; this caused the stir of the myth to settle down over the decades... however in this day and age, there have still been rare instances here and there of the dreaded Wendigo resurfacing to rear it’s reeking skeletal head...