Wight

A wight was an undead creature given a semblance of life through sheer violence and hatred. They could drain the life energy out of victims by touch, turning them into new wights upon death. Wights appeared as a weird and twisted reflections of the forms they had in life.

Variants

 * Slaughter wight: These were wights that have been specially touched by the dark gods, giving them a vicious hate for all life that far outclasses the normal undead's.

Appearances

 * Adventures:
 * Curse of Strahd
 * Shadowdale: The Scouring of the Land
 * The Rise of Tiamat
 * The Twilight Tomb
 * Computer Games:
 * Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
 * Icewind Dale
 * Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
 * Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
 * Neverwinter
 * Pools of Darkness
 * Pool of Radiance
 * Treasures of the Savage Frontier
 * Novels:
 * Extinction