Wraith
Undead Strategist
When the flesh falls away, when the bones decay, when all is dust—the wraith remains. The spark of necromantic energy that once made the zombie trudge around is free of physical constraint and lurks in the world like a shadow.
Wraiths haunt the lonesome places where their bodies finally gave up. When they sense the presence of the living, they are drawn to them. They are desperate to make the living understand the pain of undeath. They whisper their regrets in their ears, they place their cold fingers over their mouths, they cling to them and try to get warm.
If they're successful, the wraith soon has company.
Attributes: Swords 4 | Pentacles 1 | Cups 2 | Wands 3
Health/Defense: 4/0
Likes: Sympathy, Cataloging its Agonies
Hates: Its Continuous Existence, Bright Light (avoids adventurers carrying light sources)
Notes
- Shadow Form.
A wraith is naturally intangible. Physical objects pass harmlessly through the wraith, but the wraith can choose to interact with the physical world at will. A wraith becomes tangible in bright light.
- An adventurer with a torch or lantern can use a miscellaneous action (any card) to shine their light onto a wraith to make it tangible to everyone until the end of the round.
- Spectral.
A wraith is not a physical being. They are immune to any effect based on biology or mental control. They cannot see illusions.
Lesser dooms
- Fear.
Play a lesser doom card and compare its value to the Initiative of each character in the same zone. If the wraith does this on its turn, it adds its Wands to the total value. Adventurers it succeeds against are Displaced to an adjacent zone of the player's choice.
- Retreat into the Shadows.
Discard any card to automatically disengage from all adventurers. This action does not count towards the one card per turn limit.
Greater dooms
- Dolorous Kiss.
When the wraith Attacks, discard a greater doom card to attempt to drain the target's life energy. If successful, the adventurer loses 1 XP in addition to a Wound. This XP is restored if the wraith is destroyed.