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Wendigos are creatures found in Appalachia.
Background
Wendigos are mutated humanoids encountered in post-apocalyptic Appalachia.[1] Individuals such as Morris Stevens have transformed into the creatures, connected through their participation in the act of cannibalism.[2] Pre-War urban legends surrounding the wendigo cave within the Savage Divide became reality when the Progenitor Wendigo made its home there.[3]
Gameplay
Wendigos are aggressive and can quickly deal a high amount of damage. Their melee strikes are powerful enough to stagger those in power armor. Wendigos will not run away if the player character climbs onto objects or furniture but will continue to screech. During combat, wendigos may let loose a piercing shriek that may attract a horde of feral ghouls to their location.
Though rare, one can occasionally witness wendigos perched atop tall and out-of-sight locations, which allows them to ambush prey. One such example can be seen with wendigos that perch on trees overlooking the central roads of the Mire. At higher levels, wendigos will frequently appear as a boss-type enemy for groups of ghouls. Feral Ghouls and wendigos do not attack each other.
Variants
| Image | Name | Location | HP 
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FormID | Game |
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00015583 |
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Ravenous wendigo
A more powerful wendigo variant with a reddish, fleshy appearance. Its darker, muddled colors can easily make the creature blend into dimmer or more urbanized environments.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Ravenous wendigo 003CBC5F |
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Glowing wendigo
One of the strongest variants, it bears a charred appearance and has a soft green glow. This variant also has a chance to spawn in a wendigo horde made up of two or three wendigos.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Glowing wendigo 003CBC61 |
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Scorched wendigo
A charred, fleshy wendigo with dark red eyes infected with the Scorched Plague. All regular wendigo variants have a corresponding Scorched variant with the same stats, abilities, and items. They may become Scorched when attacked by scorchbeasts or the scorchbeast queen, becoming allies with other Scorched creatures.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Scorched wendigo 00015583 |
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| Scorched ravenous wendigo 003CBC5F |
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| Scorched glowing wendigo 004EC623 |
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Wendigo spawn
The strongest variant, it is identical to the glowing wendigo. They appear almost exclusively alongside wendigo colossi, and are called to support them in battle. Three of them can be found inside Monongah Mine by themselves during the event A Colossal Problem.
| Name (Form ID) | Abilities | Items | |
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| Wendigo spawn 005751A0 |
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Wendigo Colossus
Locations
A wendigo can appear in the following locations:
- Pylon Ambush Site
- Kanawha Nuka-Cola Plant
- Willard Corporate Housing
- Garrahan Estate
- Fort Defiance
- In the solitary confinement block of Eastern Regional Penitentiary
- Haven Church
- Lewisburg
- Freddy Fear's House of Scares
- In the R&D section of Garrahan Mining Headquarters
- Mountainside Bed & Breakfast
- Big B's Rest Stop
- KMAX Transmission
- Seneca Rocks Visitor Center
- Watoga Emergency Services
- Drop Site C2
- Drop Site G3
- Firebase LT
- Sal's Grinders
- One may appear in Lake Eloise's surroundings.
- Wendigo spawns will appear in extremely high numbers during A Colossal Problem.
- Up to three consistently spawn on the road south of Abbie's Bunker, by the truck suspended by vines.
- Groups of wendigos can appear between the Whitespring Golf Club and a fissure site.
- There is a possibility for a wendigo to spawn at Hawke's Refuge. It is one of three creatures that can spawn in a small cavern off of the main cave. The other creatures that may be found there are a withered feral ghoul or a putrid glowing one. It will always be one of these three.
- Reliably found inside the wendigo cave.
- The Nightstalker (legendary glowing wendigo) will always appear at the end of the One Violent Night event.
Related quests
Challenges
- Kill a wendigo in the wendigo cave (daily).
- Take a camera picture of a well-fed player inside the wendigo cave (daily).
- Possum: Photographer - Take a camera picture of a wendigo (lifetime).
Named
Notes
There is a miscellaneous quest to kill a Wendigo while wearing a clown costume. Completion of the quest requires wearing both the clown outfit and clown hat. Although the quest marker suggests going to the wendigo cave, killing any wendigo counts for the challenge.
Appearances
Wendigos appear only in Fallout 76.
Behind the scenes
A wendigo is a real world entity in Algonquin folklore, described as a malevolent spirit that is associated with winter, cold, famine, cannibalism, and starvation, "created whenever a human resorts to cannibalism to survive."[Ext 1]
Gallery
Wendigo appearing on the cover of Tales from the West Virginia Hills: Curse of the Wendigo!
Wendigos with a destroyed caravan
Morris Stevens, a former raider and the first wendigo
Camp Counselor Nia as a wendigo
Scott Conroy as a wendigo
A wendigo, as shown on the Exploding Palm
E3 promo
Harry Osborn lithograph
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