Talk:Elias Ainsworth/@comment-85.176.3.163-20161005000952

Looks like he is a Wendigo:


 * 1) a cannibal monster or evil spirit native to the northern forests of the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes Region of both the United States and Canada - given Lindel met him somewhere far north and caribou live in Canada, so it does fit.
 * 2) is a monster with some characteristics of a human, or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous - the thing where everybody say he has both human and fairy aspects to him.
 * 3) It is historically associated with cannibalism, murder, insatiable greed - the whole man-eating drama.
 * 4) wendigos are often described as giants, many times larger than human beings ... its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets - Elias is rather tall, especially in his true form. His eyes are just dots of light sitting deeply in his scull. Also in his more natural form his vaist becomes incredibly thin, his ribs become visible.
 * 5) A Wendigo can turn other people into Wendigos but they have to posses them ... once they break down and consume human flesh they undergo the transformation of a Wendigo. - maybe Elias did never consume human flesh, but merely remembers craving for it. therefore he is an incomplete wendigo. He is often referred to as an incompleete one by other fairies.

Although not a canon, if you google for Wendigo you'll find many pictures of a beast with a deer/elk head/scull. Possibly many artists tried to give it a distinct feature associated with it's origins land because legends do not specify anything particularly unique in their physical appearances.