Wendigo

Wendigo
The vicious Wendigo are a constant danger to the outlying settlements and trade routes of Duranin. Small, primitive humanoids with greenish-gray skin like rough leather, Wendigo are known for their savagery and tenacity. Their large jaws boast a wicked set of sharp teeth, and their dull yellow eyes reflect the moonlight like wild beasts.

Wendigo are entirely predatory, feeding primarily on the flesh of humanoids such as humans and elves. Attempts to communicate with the wendigo have been unsuccessful even though they seem to have a primitive language, and their eradication has proven difficult due to their lack of permanent settlements. Wendigo tribes seem to be lead by the most brutal and ruthless examples of their kind, rising to the top through the corpses of other wendigo. In rare cases, a wendigo "krekkt", or warchief, can gain control over a large enough number of his or her kind to directly raid a village; wendigo attacks on border settlements are horrific in their brutality, as wendigo murder, rape, and destroy anything in their path that they do not capture for food. They seem to take little interest in items of wealth, instead taking only prisoners and weapons.

Wendigo are cannibals by nature, sustained almost entirely on the flesh of sentient humanoids (including rival wendigo). They are notoriously cruel, delighting in the wails and screams of their victims as they begin feeding on them while they are still alive. The wendigo often decorate themselves with the bones of their victims, particularly skulls and teeth. They construct crude fetishes and charms from these parts, which fuel the simple magic of theis shamans.

The danger of wandering wendigo tribes is downplayed heavily by the noble class, who liken then to nothing more than barbarian brigands of small stature, only dangerous in numbers. In actuality, even a single wendigo is a dangerous foe by virtue of it's pure wild and aggressive nature, despitre it's primitive weapons and small frame. The dangers of wendigo are very real to most travelers.