Wight (Basic Lore)

Wight (CR 9)
Pure Evil - Medium - Undead
Wights are another type of undead that resemble zombies, but like Mohrgs, Wights have the burning light of intelligence in their eyesockets. Indeed, one way of identifying Wights is that dreadful spark of hatred that lights their sockets as they regard the living. However, being intelligent, wights can dim their baleful gaze to conceal their true nature. In many ways, Wights and Mohrgs are twisted opposites, each one dark and horrible. Where Mohrgs are Corrupting undead, and seek to lie low, build their strength, and issue forth in a terrible wave to convert the living, Wights are Eaters. They have The Hunger, as bad as any Zombie, Ghoul or Vampire. Wights cannot lurk and wait, Wights must hunt, because it is in their nature. In their hunts, the intelligence of the Wight serves it well. They are skillful monsters, fiends of cunning and ability. They will set lures, they will snatch bait and seek to draw the living into traps. Wights can attack in daylight, or from underwater, and are known to do both, although they seem to prefer the cover of darkness. Their gaze can draw you toward them, your body moving of its own accord, and their bites are truly terrible, eating away at both flesh...and the very essence of life.