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Like [[Ghouls]], [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder|gnomes]] and [[All Trolls Are Different|trolls]], "wights" are a kind of supernatural creature whose details no one quite agrees on. Usually [[Always Chaotic Evil|evilly affiliated]] and somehow related to [[The Undead]], but even ''that'' is up for debate. Can be an umbrella term for any magical creature, and occasionally a wight is a poorly understood, vaguely undead creature ''in-universe'' as well as in its description.
Like [[Ghouls]], [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder|gnomes]] and [[All Trolls Are Different|trolls]], "wights" are a kind of supernatural creature whose details no one quite agrees on. Usually [[Exclusively Evil|evilly affiliated]] and somehow related to [[The Undead]], but even ''that'' is up for debate. Can be an umbrella term for any magical creature, and occasionally a wight is a poorly understood, vaguely undead creature ''in-universe'' as well as in its description.


The word comes from a Middle English word meaning literally 'being' (or by extension, 'person'). The modern associations are likely down to Tolkien, whose term 'Barrow-Wight' translates roughly as "Grave-Man", with later adopters presumably missing the significance of the 'Barrow' part.
The word comes from a Middle English word meaning literally 'being' (or by extension, 'person'). The modern associations are likely down to Tolkien, whose term 'Barrow-Wight' translates roughly as "Grave-Man", with later adopters presumably missing the significance of the 'Barrow' part.
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** An early draft toyed with the idea of making the Nazgul simply horsed versions of the Barrow-wights.
** An early draft toyed with the idea of making the Nazgul simply horsed versions of the Barrow-wights.
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' Wights are dead knights and guardians of ancient kings; essentially, the [[Praetorian Guard]] of an Undead army. In a possible inspiration from Tolkien, they have health-draining weapons.
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' Wights are dead knights and guardians of ancient kings; essentially, the [[Praetorian Guard]] of an Undead army. In a possible inspiration from Tolkien, they have health-draining weapons.
** There is an [[Isle of Wight|Isle of Wights]] off the south coast of Albion.
** There is an [[Isle of Wight]]s off the south coast of Albion.
* Wights in ''[[The Carpet People]]'' are a clairvoyant, varnish-mining race who can [[Mental Time Travel|remember the future]]; mostly sympathetic, but with something of an [[Omniscient Morality License]] attitude. They're really more [[Our Elves Are Better]] with Pratchett simply [[Call a Pegasus a Hippogriff|playing with names]].
* Wights in ''[[The Carpet People]]'' are a clairvoyant, varnish-mining race who can [[Mental Time Travel|remember the future]]; mostly sympathetic, but with something of an [[Omniscient Morality License]] attitude. They're really more [[Our Elves Are Better]] with Pratchett simply [[Call a Pegasus a Hippogriff|playing with names]].
* In the ''[[Books of Pellinor]]'', Maerad destroys "a wight of the abyss". It's implied to be some sort of demon.
* In the ''[[Books of Pellinor]]'', Maerad destroys "a wight of the abyss". It's implied to be some sort of demon.
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