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Wight (Dungeons & Dragons)

GamesUndead1968 to 1999

The life-draining corpse of Dungeons & Dragons. The game took it from Tolkien's barrow-wights, a concept that goes back to the Icelandic sagas, and gave it the ability to turn its victims into copies of itself.12

Battle it
First appeared
1974
Dungeons & Dragons (1974)
Source work
Dungeons & Dragons (1974)
TSR
Made in
USA
What causes it
Other
An undead whose touch drains life energy; those it kills rise as wights.
How you become one
Any humanoid killed by a wight becomes a wight within seconds, enslaved to its killer.
Intelligence
Clever
Weak spots
  • a cleric's power to turn undead

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today1974

Dungeons & Dragons (1974)

field notes

What the sources say

1

Adapted directly from the barrow-wight of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings12

2

The concept goes back to the Icelandic sagas12

3

Present in the original 1974 rules, where its touch drains energy levels12

4

Its appearance is a twisted reflection of the body it had in life12

5

Spawn stay enslaved until the wight that made them is destroyed12

Sources

  1. Wight - d20 SRD (D&D 3.5 System Reference Document)
  2. Undead (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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