Environment

Special abilities

Fight power 2 | Normal sight 0 | Aura vision 10 | Invisibility 8 | Damage to incorporeals 1 | Incorporeal 1 | Weapon invulnerability 1 | Vulnerability to silver 1 | Evil essence 1 | No body parts 1 | Flying 1

Meeting a wraith is one of the most terrifying experiences the living can know. Many flee before it fully appears; the less fortunate stand paralyzed with horror while the icy touch of the undead drains their life force.

The appearance of wraiths differs according to the soul that gave birth to them: some appear as translucent torsos of the long dead, others as twisted shadows with a face resembling a mask of terror. What they share is an unnatural cold and hatred of everything living.

A wraith is born from a being that died a violent death and refused to accept its fate. It is often a spirit of vengeance, the victim of betrayal or murder, whose mind is so twisted that it can no longer tell the culprit from the innocent, and it kills blindly in the hope of finding its murderer among its victims.

A wraith is bound to the place of its demise and does not stray from it farther than a few hundred meters. Game and people from the surroundings soon leave, but darker beings are drawn to such a place. Sunlight is unbearable for it, and neither mist nor dusk protects it, which is why it appears only deep after midnight.

Subjugated Victims

More powerful wraiths can bind the souls of their victims to themselves and turn them into weaker servant wraiths without a will of their own.