Wight

W wight File:Wight.png
Difficulty	8
Attacks	Claw 1d4 drain life, Bite 2d3, Claw drain life

Base level	5
Base experience	146
Speed	12
Base AC	5
Base MR	5
Alignment	-3

Frequency (by normal mechanisms)	Very rare
Genocidable	Yes

Weight	1200
Nutritional value	0
Size	Medium

Resistances	cold, sleep, poison, level drain
Resistances conveyed	None

Other attributes	A wight: does not breathe. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. does not eat. (*) is undead. always starts as hostile. can follow you to other levels. can pick up weapons and food.

Reference	SLASH'EM_0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line3268

A wight is a more powerful counterpart to the barrow wight in SLASH'EM. With two drain life attacks, it can be deadly to a character without high magic cancellation or drain resistance. Luckily, they tend not to appear before the player has MC 3, and thus are not a huge threat, as MC 3 more or less renders their drain life attacks harmless.

Encyclopedia entry Edit

When he came to himself again, for a moment he could recall
nothing except a sense of dread. Then suddenly he knew that
he was imprisoned, caught hopelessly; he was in a barrow. A
Barrow-wight had taken him, and he was probably already under
the dreadful spells of the Barrow-wights about which whispered
tales spoke. He dared not move, but lay as he found himself:
flat on his back upon a cold stone with his hands on his
breast.

[ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]