Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20150311232923/@comment-25396609-20150319224737

the wendigo is a cryptid from native american mythology, it is (if i recall correctly) a shaman or warrior who consumes the flesh of his enemies to gain superhuman strength, speed, etc, gets addicted to the power high, and keeps doing it until he starts to turn into a monster and loses his humanity, at which point he exists for the sole purpose of hunting down and killing humans to eat their flesh.