The Origins of the Wendigo - Fallout 76 Lore
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Morris: I'm not a monster
Also Morris: *Literally becomes a wendigo*
yup TOOOOOTALLY not a monster TOOOOOOOTALLY not
*_H H H H M M M M M_*
Refuses to eat kid
Eats his wife good job morris
Eh, nothing that a Furious harpoon gun can't fix.
its almost as if its some sort of...foreshadowing
You're missing a key point in the Wendigo legends, Ox. According to the folklore, a person who gives in to their primal avarice or resorts to cannibalism, even as a desperate act to survive, can become POSSESSED by the evil spirit of the Wendigo, which will twist and transform the victim into the monstrous creature we see today.
Given Fallout canonically has some paranormal elements (Dunwich Borers) i think that spirits being involved is more than plausable.
You are correct.
also he just read the wiki page..
@@mayonaisedragon well.
@@mayonaisedragon Where else is one going to learn about Wendigos lol.
If you go down to the woods today you're in for a surprise.
If you go down to the woods today you better go in disguise.
For when the ground is cold, and covered in snow.
You'll find yourself in the lair of the Wendigo.
Love that poem
Nicely done.
Go as a clown?
Very nice poem. Very.... nice...
Victor Volkov very true but now a days people aren’t afraid of wendigos any more. Now people are afraid of THE RAKE. what ever you do don’t look up what it is. It only gets stronger that way
That guy running around while you read looked creepy af.
Damn clown outfit with a party hat.
It’s to complete a challenge
You have to kill a wendigo with a clown suit on for a quest step.
I immediately started looking through the comment section when I saw that dude run by. Lol
LOL what's the timestamp?
Wtf is that guys problem
That Ski Lodge reference reminds me of the game Until Dawn.
That was probably intentional
Same
Poor Josh
It is :)
Yeah it's a reference
Wendigo runs towards me
Me: Oh HELL NAH!
*_pulls out Fatman_*
@@theinternet2019 What?
I like all my comments
@@theinternet2019 I read it in goofys boys oh hell nawh
Ah hell nah thats me
I just ran and threw mines behind me 😂
I feel that Ox left out one of the most important parts of the Wendigo myth, that the game actually kind of does a good job hinting at. The Wendigo was also used as a scapegoat, as much as a scary story. In the dead of Winter, when there was no food at all and people were unable to leave their shelters to hunt or forage due to all the snow, and you had to do what you had to do to survive, you could blame the Wendigo. "It wasn't your fault, you were overtaken by the Wendigo." "You didn't want to eat those people to survive, the Wendigo made you do it." "You're not a monster, the Wendigo is the monster." To absolve themselves of blame for what they did, people forced to resort to cannibalism to survive in Winter would claim to have been possessed by the spirit of the Wendigo. You can kind of see that in Morris' story, and a lot more in Scoot's story.
My ex was native and he 100% believed that this thing was real, it absolutely terrified him and he went into that cave, he just put the controller down and walked away and started praying because in his culture just saying the name invites the spirit to come possess you, and you'll start getting the hunger and the minute you actually do it you will be possessed and you will start turning into one
Tell him it’s all good, I played “until dawn” and said its name many times before.
they forgot to burn the heart
or else he will come back to life
Flare gun works.
LordPhoenix yes another supernatural fan nice
Haha
@@thomasweeden2683 first episode I saw was of the Wendigo one.
I thought you gotta burn it to death and wendigo spirit is released
"Stupid quarantine, I hate it."
Me too, kid. Me too.
Lol I was thinking the same.
Yesss!!!!!! Me too!!!!
Then dont put up with it. Not like it does anything anyway.
Too soon
It is possible that something similar to feral ghouls happened to them. Radiation could have affected their brain, but maybe a certain part got affected more. The hypothalamus controls how hungry and full you feel. If it got damaged, then it is a possibility you would begin to feel like you're constantly starving. Which, could eventually lead to you reverting to cannibalism.
I think existing cannibles became wendigos in a similar way to ghouls, but a cannibalism related disease mutated inside of them, causing them to become Wendigos.
@@fourscarlet7581 They definitely seem to be a type of Ghoul. Ferals don't attack them and vice versa. Also the creature profiles in the Enclave genetics lab has the Wendigo in the same group as Ghoul variants.
If they were eating human brain tissue then they probably contracted "Kuru" which is a Prion diseases that has no cure.
so if they had Kuru and were subjected to long term radiation exposure then it would make sense for them to be a subspecies of Ghoul.
TL,DR if you have to eat a person discard the brain, actually its probably best to discard ALL internal organs and bleed the meat property to avoid prion contamination.
@@LordDarthHarry first time coming in contact with one, wasn't expecting to see this creature crawling towards me.
It may be because of the ultricite ore
For the record you're the only long-play narrator that I can stand to listen to. Keep up the good work.
same
Try saltfactory he is also very good and a good critic.
I was always given the impression from legends that the wendigo is created from cannibalism of raw human flesh. That's why the Gourmands don't become them but survivors of cave falls do
Muffin of CHAOS oh like the cooking kills whatever causes it interesting that makes it sound more like a parasite that is not harmful to humans in their body but when consumed it causes mutations. AND THEN THE RADIATION HITS.
@@blueoysterboi4742 it's not actually too far from reality. A lot of parasites do utilise horizontal gene transfer (passing a set of genes to another organism either for symbiosis or to assist feeding) - like the parasite wasp - so maybe the radiation and FEV just takes the idea to the extreme.
How does a muffin know more than me
@@iDontRember413 the path of chaos is a gateway to many abilities some would consider... Unnatural...
@@MuffinOfChaos is it possible to learn this power?
Not from a pie
The Wendigo is probably my favorite creature in all of Fallout... A few Halloweens ago, I went to a costume party as a Wendigo, and was shocked the next year when it entered my favorite game franchise.
It's real I saw it once never saw it again.
Either that, or you and Ainz are completely insane. Yeah, and Unicorns and Dragons are real.
One I also love the wendigo
Two that profile picture made me laugh for some reason
My favourite wendigo interpretation comes from until dawn,I still get nightmares about those fuckers that game was so good
Hey, you named the Algonquin tribe! Thanks for that, so many people telling horror stories based around the wendigo neglect to credit the people who came up with it and mix it up with the Navajo skinwalker. ... Seriously, a northeastern cannibal mixed with a southwestern mimicker. You couldn't get further apart in location.
Bouth scary as hell
People dont credit who came up with it because thats literally the least important thing when it comes to a horror story
I live in Arizona so I grew up learning about Navajo folklore. It's always frustrating when people get the two mixed up... But, also... they're creepy as hell. You'll find a lot of people can't even say the name.
North-eastern cannibal >southwestern witch any day though, am I right? ;)
Ruth Nield I know right?!?
Oxhorn if your remember from one of the Bethesda interviews before Fallout 76 was released they said the reason you see so many new creatures in Appalachia is because it was still fairly soon after the bombs dropped that there were more variations in mutations and that they died out over the 100+ years from the other games.
I like how the kept with some of the lore of the Wendigo. Supernatural follows lore from all over the world for the monsters they fight against, and for Wendigos you can be born with the hunger it just depends on if you give in to it, or you can be cursed but one thing never changes fire kills it and keeps it dead
What i find more "Supernatural" is how the fuck Scoots cats could have survived out there for 25 years....
That was one of my favorite episodes of Supernatural
So can we theorize that the Gourmands migrated west bit by bit to Nevada as they were found and driven out by other survivors?
Yes
Clean gloves make for polite dining.. wouldn’t you say?
That's what i thought when i saw the names. But the only raider left from that group of gangs is rose. And she finds cannibalism disgusting. So unless somebody from the wastelanders dlc adapted the name AND tradition it's impossible.
pretty sure they're both separate factions, I think they both just decided the name gourmands fitted them nicely. especially cause all the raider groups in west Virginia died out
The Nevada Gourmands only took that name after thy became "civilised" and moved into the Ultra-Luxe. Possibly the name was even selected by Robert House, so until that point there was no connection between the two Gourmands factions.
I didn’t know Uncanny Caverns had Giraffe Wolves!
A really unique fallout creature like the mega sloth.
Occurs in a genetic defect called “It just works”
We all hate the bugs in Bethesda's latest cash cow, but you've got to admit... some of them are joyful ;-) The shack past Helvetia (I think?) with the radstag hung in the porch had a dead raider clinging to it last night. A raider with 8ft long arms and her head on backwards. A little after that, a savage divide mirelurk teleported four times around me then disappeared. *shrug* That and the headless, stationary immortal ghouls...
Ox, its not "human flesh" its "Iguana Bits". And don't think of it as lying, just re-branding something so that it will sell.
And dont worry. If you start laughing uncontrollably, thats just because iguana bits are hilarious
@Angryboi or human flesh long pork
wait so Gourmands eat human flesh or iguana bits? or you talking about the meat dangling in their former base?
You would have done well in marketing in pre war America. That's the exact kind of mindset that vaulteck and rob-CO love
Yes! Creature lore!!!
I hope he continues with other Fallout beasts.
Great video!
While you're waiting. You should check out widgeon tv. He has done similar videos of most cryptids from fo76.
Hey, niiiice pfp
@@jacobmelvin718 Lookin' good!
@@toadmilker8151 Slow down!
@@jacobmelvin718 get we have the same first name
19:58 that's some uncanny stuff at uncanny caverns
LOL
Lul
@@iDontRember413 I'm surprised that you commented on a post that is a year old
"OK, sword isn't cutting it!" - HAHAHAHAHA
I really like that Bethesda chose to put fallout versions of cryptids into the game. Mothman is really cool.
I wish there was a mod or creation for fallout 4 that added mothman.
As Ojibwe we are told fear Wendigo my grandfather used tell me story's of Wendigo and other myths from are tribes but he told me always watch ur back cause Wendigo always watching when we be in woods
Tyler the crow what really terrifies me is the skin walkers..
Cool
I'm descended from Tuscarora, and I always thought these were just campfire stories to keep young ones close to the fire at night. Wendigo, the Forest Guardians, etc... However, with all these reports of eye-witness sightings lately, things that match descriptions of our "myths", well, I'm keeping an open mind. I'm still not convinced though. Keep the good medicine close, Tyler.
@@gmann1968 Let me tell you it is not i met it i was planning on ending it And burning it's heart but I forgot my shotgun never saw it again.
@@ainzooalgownoverlord8913 sure
I live in West Virginia, and I can say they got the accent pretty good. Some of the state talks differently though.
I hope they made an effort to find voice actors from West Virginia (and Massachusetts in 4), though I certainly wouldn't lose my mind if they didn't.
Me to bro sugar grove is close to Franklin my home
to they have the brothers from wrong turn too?
Thanks obama
Georgia native here never heard a West Virginian accent before
Pretty solid video. Thanks.
I'm curious why you didn't connect the Sons of Dane with the Beowolf legend. The Nightstalker is clearly a Grendel substitute, and the SoD Compound is an analogue of Heorot. The player is new Beowulf, just arriving far too late to save anyone.
I always interpreted the Wendigo as a unique kind of goul created through a Crazed Cannibal goulifing
Pretty much.
A Wendigo is a Ghoul that turn because of Cannibalism and not Radiation.
Story says that because they rely on cannibalism, they were possessed by a Wendigo spirit, turning them into a monster.
One reference to this story is that a man who was lost while hunting during winter eventually succumbed to eating on other hunters and some people say that he’s the first Wendigo, I may not have all the facts straight since I read about it a few years ago.
I do love Cryptids. I had to watch this.
I wonder if the wendigo counts as a cryptid or a proper mythological creature, like the difference between the Goatman and your garden variety satyr? Because the wendigo myth is a hell of a lot older than, say, Mothman or the Roswell aliens.
@@etcetera1995 I wonder if the definition is based on timeframe of sightings. Or if it's based on assertion. I mean, did the ancient greeks actually believe in satyrs, or was it understood that it was allegory etc. Things like the mothman are borne of out of the blue sightings, usually. Fairly modern ones. I used to give a lot more creedence to cryptids until I finished my degree. I couldn't find anything in most of the modern myths that couldn't be explained by greed, lies and mental illness. I do wish I couldn't explain them, though. Or could find them. What a wonderful world it'd be if we had more mysteries... or unicorns :P
Kid: "Stupid quarantine!"
Me: "Same kid."
Lol my daughter is priceless, i had to work yesterday & forgot about your latest vid (this one) so this morning my 4 year old daughter said, "daddy we missed uncle oxhorn story time." She enjoys your story telling even more than i do.
As an Indigenous in Canada I like that the wendigo made it's way into the fallout universe. Now if we could only get a previously known as Canada based fallout location.
Hey, I would really like to see a video on the vault 51 lore! Who else agrees?
But he'll have to play a shitload of nuclear winter to see it all
@@amadmadmadhatter276 yeah, so we dont have to
@@ch_ckit1050 True true. We need to send him care packages though. He'll need them
Or someone else need to do it for him.
(nuclear bombs fall)
Survivors: well guess there is nothing left but to become raiders and cannibals
Certainly staying true to the genre.
It was the rich people who became raiders.
@@-_918Buba_- People who never really worked A-day in their lives turn into monstrous maniacs who steal and kill to get what they want rather than earning it why am I not surprised
A couple of minor, minor points:
1) The Pre-War Fallout universe sci-fi/horror media made a lot of correct guesses. (EG: The "Fishmen" film series comes to mind.)
2) Progenitor doesn't necessarily mean the very 1st example of a thing. It also signifies something that came before and, possibly, led to something new. I do agree that the devs want us to feel that this guy was the 1st of his kind, but not necessarily of Wendigoes in general.
Personally, I see these wendigoes as a variant of ghouls. They happen to resemble folk lore, so there ye go.
I still think it's all a sim, anyways. That's the real experiment of Vault 76.
yep theyre either ghoul variants or ghoulified chimps or sloths.
I like to think that pre-war media was a way of covering up the truth. Like the "Hot Sheets" from Men In Black. No one believes Super Market Tabloids, but in Men In Black they are all 100% true. The truth is out there for anyone to read about, but it's presented in such a way that no one would actually believe it. So no one would believe Zetans for example are real because they're just aliens from some kid's comic book, but we all know they are very real.
In the fallout universe aliens are real but the windigo you have a hard time believing. 🤣🤣
It all being a simulation would make so much sense because of all the bugs lol
Aren’t Wendigos I naturally fast?
If you ain't Bob, go away!
"... we'll start with entry 01..."
LOL!!!
please do a video about the days/weeks/months after the Great War.
It was full of death and silence
The Great War changed the world, not because of the impacts of the bombs, but because of what civilization has become after that. In the first hours, the first thing that was present was fear and despair. After the inicial hours of confusion, the first thing that people must have thought was to stay close to their relatives; families that lived together stayed united, relatives that lived far begun planning to travel to where their other relatives lived, some others decided to unite with friends, neighbors and coworkers. Either way, most people decided to unite in groups, very few people decided to wander alone for their own reasons.
In the first week, a small tension must have paired in the air, as people didn't knew what was going to happen. Most groups started stocking food and water and there probably had a few stores and emergencial checkpoints working to deliver basic need supplies. Some people were probably waiting for a proper response of the goverment about what was suposed to be done. Others were already sure that society as they knew was over. As the black rain poured over the land, carrying radioactive materials on it, lots of people must have start dying due to the prolonged exposure to radiation.
In the second week, as the supply routes started to crumble and supplies started becoming scarse, that small tension from the first week became suspicion. Those ones who still had hope, hoped they would still manage to get their share of supplies and those wich already lost hope, were sure to get they would get theirs supplies, one way or another... And this is probably when people started arming themselves and moving to more fortified positions. Some groups of people with little supplies started to starve, and this is when they decided to take supplies from other groups, giving birth to the first Raiders gangs. Desperate people that would do anything to survive. Groups in large cities probably were the first to become Raiders, and to perish in conflict with Raiders. Small towns probably united in much stronger groups, having a bigger sense of comunity and uniting entire families to protect their own from outsiders, being able to withstand more against those inicial Raiders.
In the third week those who have not died yet from radiation exposure started showing signs of radiation sickness, losing hair, teeth, flesh. The most exposed ones started to appear like the first Ghouls, however still sentient. Groups in large cities start uniting into bigger gangs, and assaulting military supply spots, wich triggered the last remaining military authorities to deploy their Power Armor cavalry inland to contain the population. Many soldiers deserted their posts, to try to find their families. Entire batallions go rogue, securing strategic places like hospitals to treat their wounded, supply depots and guns stores, for equipment. They become the first paramilitary forces working by their own standards in the Wasteland. Some even becoming like Raiders. Others offering their power as mercenaries.
After the first month, there is no sign of government personel anywhere. There is no more response from authorities, each group is out there by their own. Those who still hoped for some response, now know it will never come. As supplies are now mostly non existent, many groups start to wander the Wasteland in search for a place with food and fresh water. Many groups die in their pilgrimage, others become Raiders. Plants start to lose their colors to become more beige. Most animals are now extinct or very rare to find. But there are still places where the grass is still green, the trees still have leaves, mostly untouched by the taint of radiation, but not for long...
2 months after the bombs fell, the sky is mostly dark. Dark clouds are carryied from place to place by massive windstorms. It's almost impossible to see the sun, the temperature have dropped quite a bit, making groups try to find shelter. Loud odd noises are heard in the wind, making people be afraid to leave their safeplaces. those who dare to venture outside their shelters, describe a massive storm with green glowing lightnings and constant tornados. Almost every day rains, but at least it's not the black rain anymore. When people can see the sun people feel blessed.
4 months after the war and you can witness the first Feral Ghouls roaming the Wasteland. Those who were exposed to the green storm became heavily irradiated, and those who were already suffering from radiation sickness became Feral Ghouls a few weeks after their exposure to the rain. Entire settlements become ferals in months. People started fearing large cities and prefering instead to roam remote places. Farm animals started to mutate, mostly diyng due to genetic malformation. Crops started to rot still planted. The earth was heavily polluted with toxic materials. Money now had no value, food and water being the most desired commodity to trade.
A year and a half after the bombs fell and people mostly live in their own comunities, with ocasional raiders passing by. The places that mostly withstand the Wasteland where the most fortified and where crops still grow. Groups that have the last remaning cows, chickens and crops were the most successful in surviving the Wasteland, having mercenaries in their hands working for food, water and power. These are the most influential and still active communities in the Wasteland, still trading between each other a few times a year, and surely attracting the atention of large Raider groups. Smaller groups are mostly wanderers, others pledging loyalty to larger groups.
5 years after the war and the dark clouds are almost gone, but the sky is still grey, with few days of sunlight. Large raider gangs have already taken a commercial choice between selling slaves, producing bullets and guns in old factories using slave labor or raiding towns with large raiding parties to capture slaves. But as so few groups of humans still stand in the wasteland, mostly are already well know in their vicinity. Rumors of deadly creatures that roam the land are already present in the folklore, with some even saying they have seen green tall men, very muscular walking and shouting through the Wasteland. Some say that they eat men flesh and are very hostile. Others claim that they take people with them, and these people are never seen again. The last remaining farm animals mostly have mutations on their bodies, some even have extra limbs and almost no fur or feathers. Some people say that one of these large settlements managed to mantain cows alive, however it's said that all of their cows have two heads! It's said that they managed to survive because they were from a very resistent breed of cows, it's name start with B, but I can't remember now... Weirder even is that now some people are claiming that they have been seeing bigger insects out there and that these insects sometimes atack people on sight! Imagine an ant the size of a hand, that would be a crazy thing to see! But other travelers claim to have seen even larger insects!
Observation: most of this I have imagined myself, from fallout lore and from other post apocalyptic games and movies, however if you found it entertaining, feel free to leave a like.
ted ralston what would be interesting to see by Bethesda is a dlc that would let us see mother ship zeta in West Virginia. Make it seem like our characters get captured but could nevee escape the ship. Now that would explain the other fallout games because our characters couldn’t rebuild America that way
Want to add a correction. Wendigos were not depicted traditionally as having antlers. That was popularized by a movie.
Wow,I didnt catch the connection to new vegas until now thanks Ox 🐂
Interesting note: The darkness seems to also be a key note to the shifting into a Windigo. Those who eat and are exposed to light more often than not don't seem to turn.
Oxhorn, I loved your Revised Nuka-World Lore Videos. So I was wondering are you gonna make a Revised Far Harbor Lore Videos?
Eric Panganiban he has plans to do so, but I believe he said he wanted to finish fallout 2 and broken steel before he revisits it
Thanks for the responses.
You know, Oxhorn. I been eating other vault dwellers and anything with opposable thumbs out there. I think we're immune to succumbing to such gluttony.
I guess video game logic is just like cartoon logic. Anything can happen, such as the players being immune to the Wendigo's influence to people in those particular woods (or in Fallout's case, greed and Radiation)
Love the dedication to getting a good shot of the Wendigo in the intro. Especially when it was killing him.
"Algonquin" Is Al-gone-ku-win! Not "Kwee-un"
But I super appreciate the fact that you mentioned that the folklore is ours and not just something fallout made up!So thanks, and I hope I'm not sounding like a jerk orz
thank fuck someone else noticed.
@Polsonnn I'm also Algonquin. Granted, i guess I'm not bothered by it as much because I understand why?
"European", "Canadian" all end with that "ee-un" sound, and that sound usually indicates "belonging to"
So saying "Algonkwee-un", while not actually correct, is just following that logic and saying "Belonging to the Algonquin people."
English is a dumb language, pass it on.
cannibalism + insanity leads to becoming a Wendigo
And radiation
Darkhailis Dark Lord or bath salts
And a soothing radiation bath
Hi ox, I know in mohawk tribe a wendigo is 8 feet tall and has a deer skull hard.
Cool
Im not in any tribe
That's how it was told to me as a kid
my theory is the more a wendigo spirit posesses a body the more stag-like it becomes hence why some sightings see a rake-like thing others stag head and others in between
The wendigo sighting holo tape may have been a reference to the video game Until Dawn
It takes place at a abanndoned ski resort
WACKY! WAVING! INFLATABLE WOLF HEADS!! I loved that Uncanny Caverns episode LOL
Just yesterday I was playing 76 and I was completing the tourist bucket list and then a wendigo and like 50 gouls came and charged me and all I had was a cultist dagger and a shotgun I didn't die but I was very startled
So the moral of the story
Always have a 50cal machine gun
*Startled
And a flamer
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises Nah just a 50cal the fuel is to hard to make
A M2 weighs 80 or so pounds unloaded and that’s with the tripod good luck humping that 500 yds
Question, Are you Rambo
Legend does say those who eat human flesh is doomed to become a Windigo.
Finally a review of the wendigo that actually mentions the Native American part of the story!
"Yes mum! Quite..." I feel like that Mr. Handy knew more than he let on
I feel like the Mr. Handys are more prone to turning sentient than they let on.
@@KK-qm1mr Depends on how you treat em, treat them like a machine, then they will stay a machine, but if you treat them like a person, then they begin to develop "Quirks" in their personality software. Quite fascinating when you realize just how hard minded they can be, considering some of em still think their owners/ the companies they work for are still alive, even though its been over 200 years by their own chronometers.
Im still saying they should Reboot FNV and F3 and make a complete edition for the dlcs
They'll put Power Armour in a new version of the Atom Shop or Creation Club.
the problem is that they don't use the creation engine, so Bethesda is too lazy to remake those games for the new engine
what does this have anything to do with the vid
meme_man_53's memes Exactly what does a game engine have to do with a creature in a fictitious setting
This is most exciting video out of all 50+ of my subscribed TH-camrs 😄
These things are a nightmare if you run into one without power armor
Ox if you made a channel reading about urban legends from games I'd listen all day
Until Dawn was the first time I head of the wendigo
same
Thank you Oxhorn for another great video. I really think you should consider doing mystery/suspense audiobooks.
Sorry for poping into the video i was looking for loot
If there's any poping to do around here the Vatican has it covered.
I love your channel never stop making these they make my day and fulfill my curiosity of fallout lore
YES! I've been waiting for this one for awhile now.
Lore! You forgot the most interesting fact about the Wendigo! They are demons that are the result of cannibalism! Some forms of the myths say humans become wendigo when they become cannibals.
Edit: ok after watching the video you wanted to save that part for the revelations of the lore. XD
I grew up in a very old school Ojibwe traditional household and the Wendigo was a story that was told pretty much to kids that were being bad, similar to " Santa's going to give you coal this Christmas" and i remember the way my dad would explain it to me would be so scary and like actually crippled me from going outside at night by my self til I was a teenager. From where I'm from (Ontario Canada) the Wendigo is described more like a half man half elk. Instead of the gangly crawling humanoid creature. Still both super scary and cool to see fallout include some aboriginal folk lore!
kantana57 supposedly that’s a skin walker, not a wendigo. To me they sound almost the same thing, but a tall tail is a tall tail.
One thing that I think is hinted at with the Morris holotape is that there may be an element of a prion disorder, something akin to Creutzfledt-Jacob. It's a disorder that can be acquired through cannibalism (specifically consumption of brain matter) and has among its symptoms changes in behavior (Morris "eyeing" of other people early on seems to fit this) and fits of uncontrolled behavior.
I think that the transformation of Morris into the progenetor wendigo may be a toxic cocktail of a prion disorder, radiation, and one of the more specific strains of FEV found in Hunterville that created a transformation akin to Harold. That is likely why wendigo haven't shown up in other locations within the Wasteland even when there has been rampant cannibalism long after Morris and the other former Gourmand.
"dad im hungry" *let me fix that for you*
first time i learned about the wendigo was in scary stories to tell in the dark
I like how you narrate ox, it really sets the stage for the lore. You're always thorough too, respek bro
Great compilation. I've come across all this lore, aside from the Uncanny Caverns material, but had never really stitched it together properly.
THE WENDIGO?? Next they’ll be adding the Grafton Monster!
Wait
Im replaying fallout 3 and on the vault tec comupter i was so suprised when i relised it had vault 76 on it
I love how you actually tell us real work stuff when you make these videos
I wonder if these Gourmands have anything to do with the ones in New Vegas. It said in New Vegas that they came from an old tribe that used to eat people. That would be neat lol.
Hey that's actually a good point. I'll have to research that and see if you're onto something
While Wendigos are the most scariest creatures in the Wasteland
Mirelurks are the most delicious creatures in the Wasteland
Their meat taste absolutely delicious
"you can slap that slimy hunk of mirelurk meat between two pieces of bread, but that dont make it a sandwich"
Very Erie story, love the lore of these games. Keep up the great 76 lore videos :-).
There is also a relationship between them and feral ghouls. In some locations if a nest of ferals spawn there is a good chance a wendigo is with them. Ive even seen ferals following the wendigo like a pied piper saw this behaviour in Lewisberg.
There's also a Wendigo that spawns in at the Whitespring Golf Club. When I go Feral hunting there I find either a Wendigo or a Glowing One in the downstairs locker room (though lately when I go there every Feral in the place just swarm and attack , if it wasn't for the X-01, a whole bunch of one handed melee perk cards and The Gutter my character would die about 10 seconds after walking in the front door.
The developers added great detail to that wendigo, it actually looks the one from the game,”before dawn!” The reactions that it gives are the same.
(radio drama plays)
WTF is this foreign language for subtitler?
It was annoying in 76 to play a holotape and that shows up instead of the words
There's only 2 things a Wendigo should fear.
A large, angry, super mutant and a short furry man with long claws coming out of his fists.
Durty Dan respect
I missed your lore videos, I'm glad your making them again
Fighting a Wendigo in a full set of power armor is all fine until it cracks you open like a tin can
Lets see shotgun , sniper, revolver, pistol, smg good im ready to fight oh and the most important thing a got damn minigun
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25:50 “Stupid quarantine.” This plot line was way ahead of it’s time.
My favorite part of this video is in the first few moments when Ox is describing the historical description of the Wendigo in our world, all while frantically taking pictures of the beast as it runs up to him.
'When you do cannibalism on this land, you would be become Wendigo'
if im not mistaken from native American story.
I think it's more like if you eat human fleash and have Native ancestry or are more likey to get possesed
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the fact that Oxhorn suffers through Fallout 76 to bring us these lore videos?
One thing I don't wanna encounter are these Wendigos. I heard they are hard to outrun and mostly chances you may not survive if they are targeting you and using the voices that people you care of. Also hard to kill if you have something to burn there flesh or someone told me you have to rip there heart out to kill them but how since they have really tough skin unless you have a sharp object to cut them through.
As someone that actually lives in one of the old farmhouses built by the early German immigrants, I can also tell you with certainty that the warding effect of the barn star is secondary. It’s actually meant to represent the star of Bethlehem. Don’t know why they chopped off one of the points though.
G'day from Australia
Trench Box aussie aussie aussie
>Aussie seeing a wendigo
>Aw Shiet here we go again
So I’m still wondering about Snallygasters and the Mothman
Snallygasters are govt experiments using FEV.
0:50 Wendigo: *Charges Oxhorn* Oxhorn: *Taking pictures*
I love these videos. Ox always finds places that I would never find myself. On the raider front , I figured gangs started popping up days or hours after the bombs fell but it would take a while before they would start raiding. Some would have started raiding before the fallout. There have always been an criminal element in sociaty. Drug cartels and mob bosses and the like. So , in a way , there has always been raider gangs in Fallout.
Would love to see more cryptids videos from you ox! This was great!
STOP AND LOOT THE WENDIGO YOUR GIVING ME ANXIETY
I’m level 75 but I still get startled by a glowing Wendigo screaming. They are relentless. Great narration as always Oxhorn
The Gourmands remind me of the Tennessee/Georgia cannibals in "Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse" by Victor Gischler. Now I want to reread that.
Oh I get it. Because if you eat human flesh, you become the wendingo's servant. I think that's what the short story the Mordeo was based on
When you said the sword isn't cutting it i was like: how is it not cutting it?!
We made a 1/2 ton steel barn star for my aunts farm. It was too heavy for the barn itself so we as well attached a steel pole to the bottom and cemented in the ground as well as bolted on the top of the barn. It was a fun 4 days
I can't believe you still make videos. Don't get me wrong - I just found your channel last year when I first started playing Fallout: New Vegas and wanted to look up a video about a vault that was confusing me. That's when I found your entire lore series and your complete walk-throughs of the vaults. Several months passed and I decided to find your channel again and watch some more New Vegas vault videos and, so, I did last night and remembered to click the bell icon. And holy shit - You still upload! The last video I watched from you was uploaded in 2017. Nice. Anyway, keep up the good work.