Wendigo in the mists
So I have been brewing up an idea to implement for my Curse of Strahd campaign that I’ll be Dm’ing in the near future.
I want to implement a man that had to make a deal with either the hags of bonegrinder or the dark powers to be able to “not feel hungry” only for the trick to be that he will only ever stop feeling hungry if he consumes human flesh. In attempting to deny this gift it altered his form into that of a wendigo.
The visual inspiration will be a combination of borderlands 3 wendigo boss fight and the creature from The Ritual.
The reason I want to implement this, is to make exploration feel treacherous to the players not actively hunt them, I would let the wendigo stalk areas that the players aren’t prepared for like the bonegrinder at level 2 so that they know to come back if they feel unprepared and if they do at some point kill the wendigo it would mean an immediate invite to Castle Ravenloft.
What are your thoughts or feedback? Or possibly alternatives?