Ithaqua

Ithaqua (Wind-Walker, Death-Walker, Wendigo) is a Great Old One whose domain includes most of the northern regions of Earth. Ithaqua seems to be limited or imprisoned beneath a plateau on the world of Borea.
The Wind-Walker is responsible for a series of disappearances in Canada and the North. In most of these cases, a person vanishes and nothing is heard of them for months or even years. Later they are found encased in a shroud of downy snow with evidence of having fallen from a considerable height. Such victims may also be alive, babbling of the glories of Ithaqua, and have in some cases carried strange items that have plainly originated in widely-removed parts of the world.
== Appearance ==
Ithaqua appears as a tremendous anthropomorphic shape with glowing red eyes and webbed feet that walk through the air as if on solid ground, or as a cloud of mist or snow with eyes. The Wendigo often emits eerie howling noises, but seeing the creature is worse; any that gaze upon Ithaqua are doomed to be taken by him.
== Cult of Ithaqua ==
Ithaqua has been worshiped worldwide, with scholars drawing parallels between the Great Old One and the gods Que Tzalcoatl, Thor, and Enlil. In the north where his true nature is known, Ithaqua is more widely feared than worshiped, and most of his cults died out in the early 19th century. Centers of this cult existed in the town of Stillwater, Manitoba, the inhabitants of which all vanished in the space of one night, and Cold Harbor, Alaska. In all instances, these cults involved human sacrifice and kidnapping of those opposed to their worship.
== Relationships ==
Some say that Ithaqua serves the Great Old One Hastur, but there seems to be little hard evidence to support this.
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