Lore accurate Adlet
The Adlet are bloodthirsty creatures based in Inuit mythology. They are also known as Erqigdlit to the peoples of Greenland and Baffin Island. Werewolf-like in appearance, it is said that they are the result of a union between an Inuit woman and a giant dog.
Inuit Legends[]
According to the myth, the woman gave birth to ten children: five were dogs, and five were Adlet - they bore the lower halves of a dog's body and the upper halves of a man's body. Terrified, she set five of them adrift in the sea. These five managed to cross the Arctic and Atlantic and spawned the European races. The other five children that stayed with their mother became ferocious, flesh-eating canine hominids who would attack anyone they encountered. The Adlet and their offspring (also called Adlet) now wander the tundra in packs, seeking out Inuit villages to feed on.
Another legend of the Adlet tells us of a very beautiful young woman who married a wolf. This angered her father greatly. Eventually she had children, some of which were human, some were wolf, and others were a mix between human and wolf, known as Adlet. Her father hates the Adlet. One day the mother sends an Adlet to bring food to her father, but the father, filled with evil intentions, ties rocks around its neck and sends it back, intending for the creature to drown in the river. The Adlet manages to call out for its mother while it is drowning and she saves it. The mother returns home and tells her Adlet children that they need to run away into the wilderness for their own safety.
Explanation?[]
Realistic AI depiction of an Adlet
A theory proposed by the team of American Monsters states that due to the questionable story of a woman having a child with a giant dog, it is more logical that the Inuit woman had relations with a Werewolf, or with a creature of Native American mythology known as the Wendigo. Though the Wendigo theory makes no sense, as a wendigo is a gaunt, emaciated person who has become possesses by a ravenous hunger that is only satiated by human flesh and has nothing to do with wolves, a Werewolf is more plausible than having children with a regular wolf.
It is also said that the legend of the Adlets may be in reference to European colonizers. The wolf is a stand in for an immigrant and the Adlet is the mixed child between a European and an Inuit.
In Popular Culture[]
- The Adlet is featured in the popular trading card game MetaZoo: Cryptid Nation.