Silveraith

Silveraiths were incorporeal undead that could only be created in areas of particularly potent negative energy.

Description
Appearing similar to ghosts, silveraiths manifested as skeletal forms with hints of the clothing they wore in life. Their bodies were translucent and incorporeal, emitting a soft blue glow.

A silveraith lacked a physical form, so their ability to interact physically with the material plane was greatly limited. Along with the usual differences between incorporeal undead and the living, silveraiths were also impervious to the effects of cold, electricity, and polymorphing.

Abilities
Silveraiths were able to harm living creatures with the merest touch of their limbs and although they had a number of resistances and abilities they were especially potent against spellcasters. In addition, they still retained all the powers, experience, and special qualities they once had in life.
 * Create Spawn: One way that silveraiths could propagate was if an arcane or divine spellcaster was slain by the backlash negative energy of their magic absorption power. The defeated spellcaster would then rise as a silveraith in one to four days.
 * Negative Energy Touch: The touch of a silveraith could pass through even armored foes to inflict serious wounds upon an enemy.
 * Magic Absorption: Much like a rod of absorption, a silveraith could absorb the energy of spells. However, rather than storing that energy, a silveraith would convert it in a wave of backlash negative energy redirected at the original caster.

Psychology
The personality and experience of a silveraith was undiminished in undeath.

History
On Marpenoth 2, 1372 DR, the drow priestess of Kiaransalee, Irae T'sarran, used the power of the Undying Temple and her claw of the revenancer to transform the Archmage of Maerimydra, Duneth Wharreil, into a silveraith.

Notable silveraiths

 * Duneth Wharreil

Appearances

 * City of the Spider Queen