Aswang

If it's a Wendigo or a Skinwalker or Dogman, something like that, if you got bit, you're lucky it wasn't worse.

If it's something like a Vampire or a Strigoi or an Ashwang, anything along those lines, you might be in a little bit more trouble.

Yeah.

You don't want to get yourself into that kind of situation.

The top half flies off and drinks people's blood with its tongue, and then it has to join with its lower half before mourning, or it dies, like in our vampire stories here.

And instead of driving a stake through its heart to kill it, you have to find the lower part, the lower torso and the legs and pour salt in it to kill the Aswan.

That's fascinating.

Huh.

Like, the two main characters live in kind of an unnamed beach town in the Philippines.

And there's a lot of talk about the Aswang and like all these different sort of demons and vampires and whatnot.

I thought it was a little much by the end, like just all of it was a lot of muchness.

But I can see where a lot of people are going to really respond to various things in it, whether it's the female friendship, whether it's the cool monsters.

And so I made stat blocks of cryptids, the Filipino cryptids, like the Manananga, the Tikbalang and all that.

The Aswang.

The Aswang,

yeah.

But not just that, also the little, little

I think 2050, I think.

And it's about this post-apocalypse with the Aswang, led by the Malmort demon, this time in physical form.

But this Malmort demon looks devil, excuse me, whatever, demon devil, looks different than the last two in the last two segments.

It's that now you see him in full form, but for some reason he looks like Voldemort from Harry Potter.

very common.

It's a witch called an Aswang.

I might be pronouncing it wrong.

It's a witch called an Aswang.

And one of the things are that...

So I'm going to make it really...

And the Aswan, which is like a shape-changing witch, ghoul kind of a thing, they swallow a black chick.

This is a very common thing.

And then we were like, as we were chatting, we're like, this would be so cool to represent this mythology

Yeah, because like, to your point, like the mythology that we're, the Aswang mythology in the Philippines, like it's just, it has the archetypes of vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, demons.

But, you know, every country has their own kind of point of view and spin on it.

And to your point, it's like, it's something familiar.

It's a vampire.

So the story, and I'll tell the story very quickly, but basically there's this, the Aswang is the name of it.

It's basically this creature in Filipino folklore.

I mean, if you search on Google right now to those listening, it's...

Uh, so humanoid-like, not exactly totally humans.

Um, but humanoid-like or partly humanoi- A- and a good example would be, uh, before the show, I had, uh, Ken look up, um, 'cause I didn't wanna spring it on him, Aswang, A-S-W-A-N-G.

Uh, my wife, as you know, is a Filipina, and she is from, uh, the southern island of the Philippines, where everybody, everybody believes in the Aswang.

And if you guys out there in the audience go to Google, and you, um, uh, put in Aswang, A-S-W-A-N-G, uh, and then click on Images on Google, you, you can kind of scroll down, and you can see all these different photographs, as Ken did prior to the show.

And an awful lot of them, to me, look like what we're talking about tonight.

Now, when I tell you my wife believes in the Aswang, I'm, I'm not kidding.

I mean, she is scared to death of this creature, and when you see it, you'll understand why.

Uh, so Ken, when you see the p- photographs that, you know, depict the Aswang-