War Wraith

These menacing spiritual remnants of wicked warlords or bloodthirsty generals are towering specters of shadow and death. Like other wraiths, war wraiths haunt the shadowy places of the world but are more likely to travel greater distances to sow terror or amass influence, often sticking to dark glades or sinister ruins when journeying across sun-dappled lands. War wraiths tend to be arrogant and rarely form a pack with others of their kind, preferring instead to dominate groups of ordinary wraiths. A particularly powerful necromancer might compel packs of war wraiths into service. However, a particularly malevolent goal—such as eradicating a bastion of light and life—might draw several war wraiths together in a common purpose.

War Wraith Origins

Not every war wraith was once an individual. Many of them coalesce over time, merging from multiple wraiths where lost souls accumulate and have their spirits and consciousnesses shorn apart or undermined in some way. These war wraiths tend to think and communicate not as one potent being, but as a riot of voices—often conflicting but truly bone-chilling when they agree to work in unison. In locations where void energy focuses, such as in the Void or on the Isle of Terror, war wraiths form in this way frequently.