# Wight

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> [!infobox]
> ![wight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/wight.webp)
> **Type:** Medium undead
> **Alignment:** neutral evil
> **Challenge:** 3 (700 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 14
> **Hit Points:** 82 (11d8+33)
> **Speed:** 30 ft

## 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-doors.md): *The figures in the frost turn their heads. Ice cracks off their mail as they stand.*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-larders-of-ill-omen.md): *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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-larders-of-ill-omen.md): *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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-dungeon.md): *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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-north-shoulder-of-ghakis.md): *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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-old-svalich-road.md): [The Last Muster](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-last-muster.md) · *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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/lake-zarovich-the-fishers-landing.md): [The Bell Under the Lake](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-bell-under-the-lake.md) · *The water along the shore stands up in the shape of people: the drowned of Pescari, grey and swollen, in…*
- [The River Ivlis Crossroads](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-river-ivlis-crossroads.md): [The Grey Mare](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-grey-mare.md) · *The black horse in the traces stamps once, and the empty harness beside it swings. Pale shapes slide out of…*
- [Van Richten's Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/van-richtens-tower.md): *Something is waiting where the causeway meets the shore: two pale figures standing very still, and above them…*
- [Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/yester-hill.md): [The Barrow on Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-barrow-on-yester-hill.md) · *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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/world/random-encounters.md)