Stat block
An undead warrior with sword and bow that drains the life of anyone it holds close; hates sunlight.
| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 82 (11d8+33) | 30 ft | 3 | 700 |
| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 (+2) | 14 (+2) | 16 (+3) | 10 (+0) | 13 (+1) | 15 (+2) |
- Skills: Perception +3, Stealth +4
- Resistant: necrotic
- Immune: poison
- Condition immunities: exhaustion, poisoned
- Senses: darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 13
- Languages: Common plus one other language
Traits
- Sunlight Sensitivity. Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls while in sunlight.
Actions
- Multiattack. Two attacks with Necrotic Sword or Necrotic Bow in any mix; one can be Life Drain instead.
- Necrotic Sword. A sword cut chilled with necrotic energy.
- Necrotic Bow. An arrow chilled with necrotic energy.
- Life Drain. A Humanoid killed this way rises 24 hours later as a Zombie under the wight's control.
Where you meet it
- The Amber Temple: the Doors: The figures in the frost turn their heads. Ice cracks off their mail as they stand.
- Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen: Dead men in the castle's livery sit up on their pallets. Two suits of armour by the door turn their empty…
- Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen: Cyrus's shriek goes down the guards' run like a bell. Boots answer it, and some of them are not boots.
- Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon: A grey figure at the rack looks up, pleased. Hands scuttle out of every corner, and the drain begins to rise.
- The North Shoulder of Ghakis: The figures by the cart turn round all together. Under the wet hoods their faces are grey and dry as old…
- The Old Svalich Road: The Last Muster · The marshal salutes with his blade, and his two lieutenants walk their bone horses out of the column to his…
- Lake Zarovich: the Fishers' Landing: The Bell Under the Lake · The water along the shore stands up in the shape of people: the drowned of Pescari, grey and swollen, in…
- The River Ivlis Crossroads: The Grey Mare · The black horse in the traces stamps once, and the empty harness beside it swings. Pale shapes slide out of…
- Van Richten's Tower: Something is waiting where the causeway meets the shore: two pale figures standing very still, and above them…
- Yester Hill: The Barrow on Yester Hill · The cairn comes apart, and up out of it and out of the mounds round it come the dead the druids bound to…
On the road: Amber Temple Road