The Nightly Storyteller Chronicles Presents: The Wendigo

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Monologue: “Hunger in the Shadows”

The wind outside howls like a chorus of lost souls, rattling the windows and carrying a chill that gnaws at your bones. I’ve walked through cities that never sleep, forests that whisper secrets of the forgotten, and still… there is a hunger that cannot be sated. Some call it myth, others folklore—but I have seen what lives in the dark spaces between heartbeats. Tonight, it calls. And I fear it calls for more than just me.


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Folklore and Mythology Notes

The Wendigo originates from Algonquian folklore, often described as a malevolent spirit associated with winter, starvation, and insatiable greed. Legends say it possesses humans, driving them to cannibalism, and grows stronger with each act of consumption. Its appearance varies, but it is often depicted as emaciated, towering, with long claws and a face that evokes both fear and hunger.

In some traditions, the Wendigo embodies human excess and moral corruption—a warning about the dangers of giving in to base instincts. Stories tell of shamans and hunters who accidentally summon it, only to face its relentless hunger.


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The Storyteller Chronicles: The Wendigo

The night had thickened, and the cabin’s walls seemed to shrink inward, as though they themselves feared what would come. I looked at Silas, desperation and uncertainty weighing on me like chains.

“I don’t… I don’t know how to unleash it, let alone control it,” I admitted, my voice barely rising above the crackling of the hearth.

Silas’s eyes glinted in the firelight, calm and unshakable. “I do.”

With that, he whispered words I could not understand, words that seemed to pull the air from the room. And then, with a subtle gesture, he summoned someone—or something—from the shadows.

The air shifted. The temperature dropped. From the corner of the room, a figure emerged. Tall, gaunt, eyes like coals burning with forbidden fire. Kaelen froze, recognition flashing across his face.

“That… that’s Malrik,” Kaelen said, his voice tight. “A rogue shaman, exiled from Elyndor for summoning forbidden hunger spirits. We are in deeper waters than I feared.”

Silas’s lips curved into a subtle smile. “Malrik is how we summon and control the creature you fear.”

I swallowed. “I politely decline your invitation.”

“That isn’t allowed,” Silas said flatly.

Before I could protest further, Malrik raised his hands and began a chant, guttural and ancient, each word vibrating through the room and deep into my chest. I felt my clawed energy surge, a desperate reflex—I lashed out at Malrik, tearing at the ritual as it built—but even as I stopped him momentarily, his voice rose again, louder and more insistent.

Then, the world seemed to freeze. Breath crystallized midair. Windows fogged with frost. And then… a shriek.

It pierced the walls, the floor, the very marrow of my bones. From the shadows, a towering figure emerged, impossibly gaunt, limbs unnaturally long, eyes hollow and endless. Its hunger radiated like a living force, and the cabin itself seemed to tremble under its presence.

The Wendigo.

It stood before us, a nightmare made flesh, the culmination of centuries of whispered warnings and tribal legends. Malrik chanted, calling it, but even he flinched under its gaze.

We were no longer hunters or storytellers. We were prey.


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