Wendigo

Wendigos are creatures found in Appalachia in 2102.

Biology
The wendigo resembles a gaunt, emaciated humanoid with ashy gray skin, long bony arms, a pot belly and a skull-like face topped with scant strands of long, stringy hair. They have large claws on the tips of each finger.

They exhibit similar characteristics to ghouls, like radiation resistance for example. They do not engage in combat with ghouls when they're near.

The fact that there is a scorched variant of the wendigo means that a (former) person can have two entities constantly fighting over possesion of the host.

Gameplay attributes
Wendigos are fast and can deal a large amount of damage in a very short amount of time. They get close and can be hard to hit without V.A.T.S. if using a firearm. Wendigos will not run away if player climbs onto a objects or furniture, but will continue to screech.

Scenes

 * There is a note on a woman's corpse on Wendigo Cave, which tells of her and her partner committing cannibalism. After a certain amount of time he became greedy (a sign of becoming a wendigo), and began to watch her. She is discovered dead and her partner is not found, suggesting he has become the wendigo found in the cave.
 * At the responders base at Morgantown airport there is a building that contains a cage with a petrified corpse and a dead raider. This scene might suggest that someone whas trying to make a wendigo by forcing someone to eat the human body, of course before he/she actually could the base whas overun.

Locations

 * Wendigos can appear in Cranberry Bog, the Ash Heap, the Savage Divide, and the Mire.
 * A wendigo can appear in the Garrahan Estate.
 * A wendigo can appear in the Fort Defiance
 * A wendigo can appear in Eastern Regional Penitentiary Solitary Confinement.
 * A wendigo can spawn in the R&D section of Garrahan Mining Headquarters.
 * Groups of sensible can appear between the Whitespring golf club and a fissure site.
 * There is a large possibility for a ravenous/scorched wendigo to spawn at Hawkes Refuge. It is one of three creatures that can spawn in a small cavern off of the large cave. The other creatures that may be found there are a withered feral ghoul and a putrid glowing one. It will always be one of these three.
 * Wendigos can sometimes be found attacking Grahm's caravan.

Appearances
Wendigos appear only in Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes
In Algonquin folklore, a wendigo is a malevolent spirit that is frequently associated with winter, coldness, famine, and starvation. It possesses and transforms human beings who have committed sins such as selfishness, greed, gluttony, murder, and especially cannibalism. The spirit then forces them to consume human flesh, turning them into a monster with an insatiable hunger for it. The wendigo are also part of the traditional belief system of many Algonquin-speaking cultures, such as the Ojibwe, Eastern Cree, Saulteaux, Westmain Swampy Cree, Naskapi, and Innu peoples. Though the folklore among cultures varies somewhat, the wendigo is commonly seen as an evil, cannibalistic, supernatural entity.