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Corpse Ghost
keywordsTwilight, Undead
level5
At Def Ag Int Phys Pre Spi H S W Ar MD Mv Fer Quick Lvl
Small Animal
14
12
15
10
5
14
12
12
0
0
3
2
3
5
79
4
Bite
:
A14
D12
Init18
damD4+1
Inflicts 2 Fatigue.
Large Animal
17
15
12
10
10
16
12
20
0
0
4
2
2
5
103
5
Bite
:
A16
D15
Init14
damD8+2
Inflicts 2 Fatigue.
Huge Animal
20
16
14
10
15
18
12
30
0
0
5
2
1
5
120
5
Bite / Smash
:
A20
D16
Init15
damD10+3
Inflicts 2 Fatigue.
A Corpse Ghost is a dead Keldian spirit that has the power to drag a corpse or skeleton from the earth and animate it to attack others. Such a Ghost can animate any sort of dead creature of Clay and control it like a puppet. The dead remains jerk to life, surrounded by a pale blue radiance. Fleshless jaws open and close, dead eyes roll, and rotted flesh clings together. The sight of such a creature coming to attack inflicts a Fear 16.

A Corpse Ghost may animate all sorts of dead creatures (Keldians included), but it uses some of its energy to do so. A fully rested Corpse Ghost has six energy, each of which can be used to animate one creature (or two for a huge animal). If the Ghost is inhabiting a body which is destroyed it loses 1 energy immediately, so they will usually flee first, but can simply raise another corpse and continue attacking. The Ghost will regain 1 energy each day, or 2 if it is near the site of its original haunting. Unlike a normal Ghost a Corpse Ghost can venture a little way outside the Twilight lands, provided that it is currently animating a corpse. However, if driven from the remains it is possessing while exposed to the light of the sun, it is immediately destroyed.

A Corpse Ghost attacks without fear, since it cares nothing for any damage inflicted on its animated form. Although it can be hit by normal weapons they have reduced damage from most sources : small weapons only do 1 damage, light cutting weapons do 2, heavy cutting weapons do their +, arrows do no damage, fire magic does half damage. Only crushing weapons do normal damage. The touch of a Corpse Ghost inflicts 2 Fatigue from its radiance, even if armour prevents the damage it might inflict.
Ghost
keywordsTwilight, Undead, Spirit, Rare
level5
Sun Keldian Ghosts are rare and tragic things, barely sentient remnants of personality and spirit that cling to the world.

The touch of the sun wipes away creatures of pure spirit. If a Keldian dies in the Deadlands or Drylands, their spirit is usually erased instantly. To survive they must cling to their bones or preserved corpses. Some ghosts animate their own corpses in the form of a Mussagana or Preta; others linger in shadows close to their bones as a Tornrait or Haunt. Some, like the Night Wraith or Remnant use magical vessels as substitutes for bodies.

In the Dark lands, the spirits of the dead are transformed into Ice Wights with no memory of the Keldians they once were.

In the Twilight lands a true Ghost can appear, a spirit that can exist even once its physical remains have been long destroyed. These creatures resemble ethereal and luminous versions of the form they bore in life, although it is common for their feet to be missing, their bodies instead trailing away into mist or smoke. Ghosts have no combat statistics, since they are Spirits entirely immune to physical attack. Some Ghosts learn to animate physical matter, becoming a Corpse Ghost.

The sight of a Keldian ghost can inflict Fear 16, and occasionally they are capable of casting about objects, especially ones which had a link to them in life. Ghosts are hard to get rid of, usually their curse must be found out and the wrong that causes them to walk the earth found out and righted. It is more likely, however, that a village threatened by a ghost will flee entirely, since most ghosts are tied to a specific location.