Wenny men

> 「 If you are expelled from the scenario, there is only one thing to look forward to. It is to hope for mercy from the Great Demon of the Horizon. 」
>
> Chapter 191

## Novel appearances

### First appearance

Chapter 191

**The Wenny men** are creatures that exist in Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, named after "wenny men" from Korean folklore.

## Appearance

The definition of "wen" is a large lump on the body. Wenny men have large lumps on their cheeks. A Wenny man will have one lump; only the ruler of the Wenny men, the Wenny King, has more than one lump. The lump on their faces will swell when they experience great emotion, and turn red when they are excited.

According to Ways of Survival, the ‘lump’ acts as a warehouse for storing stories.

## Description

The Wenny people serve as the antagonists to the Dokkaebis. Dokkaebis pranked the Wenny people, and stole a good portion of their power, including being 'storytellers' of the Star Stream (and hence having the power to stream the scenarios). This tale has become a 'story' that neither Dokkaebis nor Wenny people can escape from. Wenny people have since sworn vengeance against the Dokkaebis, and steal footage from the Dokkaebi channels to broadcast it in places where Dokkaebi channels don't exist (such as the 73rd Demon Realm).

The Wenny King is the the leader of the Wenny people, and the oldest among them. He's lived so long that the fact that he and the Dokkaebi King used to be friends, turned against each other only because of the story, has become a distant memory.

The Wenny men can exist outside of the scenarios. Since the scenarios shun Wenny people, they often help Outer Gods, who are similarly rejected by the Star Stream. Wenny men are incomparably more dangerous than Dokkaebis.

## Abilities

* **Great Demon's Eyes:** Grants its user the ability to ignore spatial constraints and enter, in other words interfere with, people's minds and dreams. Furthermore, it displays a target's personal information. It glows yellow when in usage, and spins.
* **Story devour:** Wenny men can literally eat the stories.
* **Creating passages to different worlds:** Wenny men swallow the air around them, as if sucking in time and space. Their lump shines blue, after which the lump swells by several times before there is a loud roar. Along with the roar, a space pours out of the Wenny man’s mouth. The space that comes pouring out creates a long, elliptical passage. Beyond this passage is the landscape of a different world.

## Trivia

* In real life Korean folklore, the wenny men are not inhuman creatures. Rather, they are usually depicted as old men with lumps on their faces.
	+ There are different versions of the Korean folktale of the wenny man, but the general premise is a good-hearted wenny man got rid of his growth thanks to the Dokkaebis, while a bad-hearted wenny man got one more lump.
		- There's one where the wenny old man finds an abandoned house to spend the night, after having chopped wood in the mountains. He was a good singer, and his singing attracts dokkaebis, aka goblins, to the house. The dokkaebis want his singing skill, and they think it's in his wen. The dokkaebis take the wen, and give the man gold in exchange. Now another old man, who was not as kind hearted as the previous one, decides to be greedy and also want gold. He goes to the same house, telling the dokkaebis that come to give him gold in exchange for his wen. The dokkaebis are mad that the wen is useless to them, and punishes the second old man by giving him the previous man's wen.
			* Another similar version is much like the first, except with the addition of a "warty woman". Traveling dokkaebis come across a wenny man. When he hears them sing, he says he can sing better. He demonstrates, and a few of them are impressed and wonder how he sings so well. They believe it's his wen, and he tries to object, but they take it from him anyway in exchange for gold. Now, a woman with warts on her face, seeing this, decides to dance to also get gold. The dokkaebis are once again impressed, and give her gold and take her warts. Some time later, a greedy wenny man and warty woman try to trick the dokkaebis, but they are mad and give the man a wen, and the woman more warts.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 ORV Novel Chapter 191 (read original)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 ORV Novel Chapter 192 (read original)