Vendigo Spawn

### *Weight*

Same weight as before cursed, gradually losing weight and becoming emaciated as the curse progresses

### *Hide*

Skin starts to turn ashen and may develop fur.

## *Ecology*

### *Intelligence*

Gets lower the longer the individual is cursed

### *Range*

The Continent's northern forests and cold mountain ranges.

### *Predators*

Witchers

The Vendigo are a species of Cursed One that are able to place a curse on a humanoid by making sustained eye contact. If a **vendigo** successfully curses their target, the person afflicted with the so-called Vendigo's Curse. Their deteriorating condition brought on by the effects of the curse makes it harder and harder to defeat the **Vendigo** and break the curse.

The Vendigo curse progresses in three stages.

1. The morning after the target is cursed, they wake up feeling a strong desire to consume fresh meat. This desire persists throughout the day and if that target is unable to consume fresh meat by the next morning their stamina is significantly reduced and they find it harder to do anything, their mind distracted by the thought of meat.
2. On the second morning, the target wakes with a constant growling in their stomach and a deep, unquenchable hunger for fresh, bloody meat. Their condition will deteriorate even further if they fail to eat any raw meat before the next morning.
3. On the third morning, the target wakes with an intense hunger for meat that gradually progresses toward cannibalistic desires. Physiologically and psychologically tormented, the targeted person is in serious risk of becoming a so-called "Vendigo's Spawn" at sundown.
4. If the potential Spawns willpower holds out through the third day though they can overcome the curse themselves.

**Vendigo's spawns** are completely controlled by the **vendigo** that cursed them. Their intelligence is significantly lowered but exchange, they become immune to coercion and magical charms. Both the **Vendigo** and its spawn will have an aversion to fire.

## Physiology

As former humans, they are humanoid in shape, they may or may not have clothes depending on how long the curse has been affecting them. They have clouded-over milky white eyes, a maw of sharpened teeth, ashen skin or fur, and a constantly emaciated look. They will develop elongated limbs as their condition continues to affect them over the years, accompanied by hair loss.

## Abilities

* **Wendigo Physiology**: As an existence similar to the legend of the Wendigo, a Vendigo Spawn has several traits of one.
	+ **Cold Immunity**: A **Vendigo Spawn** is immune to cold, being completely invulnerable to direct and indirect effects. Frigid and arctic-like areas, no longer decrease their body temperature. Affectively, a **Vendigo Spawn** is immune to cold-based illnesses and conditions, that would otherwise weaken or even kill normal beings. A **Vendigo Spawn** can even exist in cold climates, wearing minimal or no clothing to protect them.
	+ **Enhanced Body**:
		- **Enhanced Agility**:
		- **Enhanced Dexterity**:
		- **Enhanced Durability/Invulnerability**:
		- **Enhanced Endurance**:
		- **Enhanced Leap**:
		- **Enhanced Lung Capacity**:
		- **Enhanced Reach**:
		- **Enhanced Reflexes**:
		- **Enhanced Senses**:
		- **Enhanced Speed**:
		- **Enhanced Strength**:
		- **Powerful Bite**:
	+ **Natural Weaponry**:
		- **Claw Retraction**:
		- **Fang Retraction**:
			* **Enhanced Bite**:
	+ **Predator Instinct**:
	+ **Vocal Replication**: Using their vocal cords, a **Vendigo Spawn** is able to mimic the voices of others or imitate sounds such as animal noises and explosions. Any sound they hear they can replicate with perfect clarity.

## How to break the curse

There are two known methods for breaking the curse once it has successfully taken hold:

1. Requires killing the original **Vendigo** though at a height of 3.5 meters and being an extremely powerful being this, definitely is not the easy or safest option.
2. Requires taking the spawn out of the area where they have been hexed and overpowering the **vendigo's** magic by a knowledgeable mage, druid, or priest. A **Vendigo** is not one to let prey or a spawn escape so easily though.

## Trivia

* The **Vendigo** was originally going to be included in the Witcher 3 and exists as concept data but was passed over. New expanded information for the **Vendigo** was written by R. Talsorian and approved by CDPR, making it canon at least lore-wise.
* The White eyes and the emaciated look were not included in the data, but make sense given the original lore for the creature.
* It is unknown at this time if a **Vendigo Spawn** eventually becomes another **Vendigo** or if **Vendigo** have a different means of reproduction as **Vendigo** are solitary creatures.

## Notes

* **Vendigo Spawn** are free to use in stories and articles, all I ask is that you honor the lore present and if you make one add their name and a link to this page.