Actually speaking in terms of pure physical strength and speed a Wendigo is about even with a Vampire. Slightly weaker, but slightly faster and more agile to balance it out. It's the retractable claws(significantly increasing their melee damage output and EXTREMELY fast regeneration(recovering in seconds or minutes from wounds that would take a Vampire/Slayer/Tarrack Daemonling hours to heal.) that makes them significantly more dangerous than the average vampire.<br/><br/>Mind you, this is generally speaking of course. Buffy met plenty of vampires who were physically stronger than her(Kakistos and Luke for example), Vamps who were on par with her with little or no apprecciable difference (Spike, Angel..though Angel once claimed she was actually stronger than him. But it never seemed to show in their fights that much if so), and then the tons of mook vamps she plowed through with ease. It's entirely possible to meet a Wendigo who's stronger and slower than Rae. Just as there are varying degrees of ability amongst humans, so there are amongst demons. But all else being equal, an average Wendigo is slightly faster and slightly weaker(in terms of pure muscle lifting power) than an average Vampire.<br/><br/>If you guys want I can give you the numbers for each type of creature, just so you can have a frame of reference in mind for how they generally stack up against each other.<br/><br/>This doesn't necessarily invalidate what Keiran said mind you. It could simply be that Keiran has personally been running afoul of particularly badass Wendigos(The Kakistos' and Lukes of the Wendigo world), and has generally only encountered Mook-level Vamps.<br/><br/>Oh and as long as we're clarifying some setting info, the Fae of the Magic Kingdom ain't likely to torture their "subjects"("Slave" is so distasteful a word) in the conventional sense. They treat their subjects pretty decently actually. The work they do is no more than what humans in any other Holdout do to sustain the community, except for those who are chosen as personal attendants to a particular Fae bigshot and while you can expect to be treated rather condescendingly in this state(Similar to how Dracula treated Xander when he made Xander his bitch), this is actually a fairly coveted position to reach since you'll get the best eating and care(No Fae wants to be seen with a haggard and malnourished attendant. It's like Hollywood stars who pamper their pets). The rare occasions where someone starts being a rabblerouser, trying to upset the order they'll simply be visited one night...and warned. If it continues they'll be visited a second time and from that day forward they'll be unusually docile. Lacking any kind of passion of zest for life. The fae just show up and eat the passion right out of them. That they are capable of doing this to everyone to make them nice, docile, complacent little worker bees, and only do it to a select few who test their patience a bit too much is quite magnanimous and compassionate of them really. No...really. :)<br/><br/>I suppose there could be people with a rare but not-unheard-of resistance to Fae emotion-eating powers. Such people might need more conventional methods of torture to learn the value of behaving themselves. Not to mention prisoners of war and such. So Amilcar could still be kept busy doing the ugly torture work for the Fae though.