Ayukiza

Joined clan April 20 21 from ClockworkEclipse

A Wight is what becomes of a dragon who was returned from death wrong. They are pale shells of a thing sometimes created accidentally by Lichs attempting to raise Revenants, either because of a mistake or because the ritual was interrupted. Unlike the Revenant, who are possessed of intelligence and will, Wights are mindless. They are feral and aggressive, and have no memory of who they once were.

The longer a corpse has been dead, and the more dismembered their body, the more likely a dragon would return as a Wight; there not being enough soul and substance remaining to reform anything resembling life. They are often malformed, with extra eyes, misshapen wings, or misplaced limbs. A particularly malevolent Lich can raise a Wight instead of a Revenant on purpose, by deliberately rending the soul apart in the reanimation process.

Wights are made of bone and magic more than flesh and blood, the pallor of their scales reflect the empty shells that they inhabit. Their lifespans are extremely unpredictable—owing to the chaotic nature of the magic that stitched their form. A Wight can fall apart in days for seemingly no reason, or they can exist for decades, heedless of the fact that barely anything holds their damaged bodies together.

Wights are ferocious creatures that actively hunt and attack other dragons. Their savagery stems from the gaping chasm of wrongness that pervades their entire being. With their bodies and souls broken, they are driven to mindlessly take from others to fill their own void. As such, Wights are cannibals. They feed on dragons and animals alike, trying to steal the flesh, mind, and souls of living beings in a vain attempt to heal themselves.

Necromancers who become Wights lose the fine-grained control they used to have. Instead, their contagion strikes at random, the severity and form of their affliction entirely out of their grasp. Even so, they take great pleasure in spreading it, fuelled by their inexplicable rage and hatred for all that lives.

A Wight who somehow has the broken shards of their soul restored, either through magic or from consuming enough dragons to reassemble the missing pieces, will regain their reason and start to recall fragments of their former life.

A Wight who regains their soul may have more cruel a fate than one that remained without. They would remember all the acts they have committed while a ravening, mindless thing with a new clarity of mind—and they can never undo the horrors they have done.

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