Burning Skeleton (Basic Lore)

Burning Skeleton (CR 6)
Pure Evil - Medium - Undead
Skeletons are the animated bones of the dead, brought to unlife through foul magic. While most skeletons are mindless automatons, they still possess an evil cunning imparted to them by their animating force -- a cunning that allows them to wield weapons and wear armor. Skeletons are motivated by an intense hatred and jealously towards living things. They yearn only to crush that spark of life from everything they can reach. Burning Skeletons are magically imbued with elemental fire during their creation, a process which involves the ritual sacrifice of a fire elemental. While in combat, they are enshrouded in flames, their charred, black bones cracking under the heat, as marrow boils. Their curse of immortality prevents the fire from debilitating them.