Wights

Wights are corpses that have not ceased to move. They disdain the use of weapons, preferring their own filthy talons. In spite of this primitive attitude, they show a fair degree of cleverness, and perhaps even actual reasoning, although they never speak. It is believed among churchgoing Théans that wights are created when a man who is too proud of his own accomplishments dies of unnatural causes. Their obstinate pride prevents them from moving on into the afterlife. Rodriguez’s Bestiary has disputed this claim in its latest edition. He says that there is evidence that a wight’s condition is similar to a disease, and that the condition is spread through contact with existing wights. Unfortunately, since wights are so difficult to destroy, the few cadavers he has obtained have been too mangled to perform a proper dissection on.