Our Wights Are Different: Difference between revisions

* 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.

** ''[[Nethack]]'' runs with this, giving wights an attack that drains character levels. Interestingly, when eaten, they {{spoiler|provide zero nutrition but also raise the consumer's level}}.

* In [[Norse Mythology]], "Wights" (Vaettir) essentially means [[Differently-Powered Individual]] - the term covers any non-divine magical beings, including [[Our Elves Are Better|Elves]], [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Dwarfs]], [[Our Giants Are Bigger|Giants]] and [[All Trolls Are Different|Trolls]].

* ''[[Might and Magic]] 7.'' Wights, wraiths and barrow wights (in order of increasing power) are a somewhat rare sort of undead that wear long brown robes and tote really nasty knives. Aging, spell point drain and magical terror may result from their attacks.

** And by 'Somewhat rare' we mean 'You fight them every ten feet in The Barrow Downs. And less often in other areas too.'

* Wights in ''[[Myth]]'' are zombies that [[Action Bomb|explode]] when attacked or when they get close to enemies, and spray a paralyzing toxin over nearby units.

* In ''[[Morrowind]]'', "heartwight" is an alternate name for an ash vampire. It fits better, since they aren't vampires at all.

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