The Wendigo (Character)

The Empathic Giant (mistakenly referred to as a Wendigo by Janine Zimmerman) was an entity responsible for the deaths of several campers in Pacific Glade. It was killed by Olivia Marconi.

Pre-Neverglades Series

 * The empathic giants were the first beings to cross the rift between realities on their own. When they began to feed on humans and wreak havoc in this dimension, the Inspector gave himself a human body and entered our world to fight the creatures and exterminate them.

The Wendigo

 * After being let into our universe by the scientists from CAPRA, the Empathic Giant stalked the trees of Catamount Forest and harvested several young campers to feed on, placing them in small pocket universes constructed from their worst fears. The Inspector, Mark Hannigan, and Janine Zimmerman traverse these subdimensions in order to rescue the missing Olivia Marconi. Although the Inspector is defeated in his weakened state, Marconi is able to kill the Empathic Giant by sending it blasts of courage (the antithesis of what it feeds on), causing it to fall backwards into a chasm and die of impalement. With their creator dead, the pocket universes then begin to disintegrate.

On the Mountain of Madness

 * Mark believes he sees the same Empathic Giant that Marconi killed crawling through the tunnels underneath Mount Palmer Insane Asylum. (Like Janine, he refers to it as a Wendigo.) Because the reality of the events that took place in Mount Palmer is murky, it is unclear whether there was another empathic giant in the asylum or if the sighting was a figment of Mark's unstable mind.

Appearance and Attributes

 * The Empathic Giant was a towering entity with a vaguely humanoid shape, although Mark Hannigan was unable to distinguish many other defining details about it; he refers to it as "darkness made solid." It has a misshapen head which consists mostly of a glob of bloodshot human eyeballs.
 * Like other beings of its kind, the Empathic Giant fed on human emotions. This particular entity favored the taste of fear, and its pocket universes were meant to draw out the fears of its prey.