[Edit 21/06/2021 - Replaced table to deal with display incompatibility across browsers; added a little to the descriptions]
Wights are the mysterious and ancient barrow dead. Formal, mannered, honourable, even courteous, in their own way; Wights are also brutal, vengeful and quick to take offence - many still driven by the office they held in their deep, dim, mortal past.
Use any RAW wight you like, but I look to Dragonwarriors for my ur-wight, with a pinch of the meorty from the Dark Sun setting (particularly the one in pseudo-Elizabethan dress, 2nd edition, I think) - I like them pseudo-Celtic/Viking for the older ones, and medieval/late medieval for the Stranded Isles (17th/18th Century rough equivalent).
Give them an enormous, blunt two-handed sword to drag, sparking against the flags, or a vast, branching bow that no mortal living could hope to draw, then pick or roll to dress and crown them, and put in their eyes before letting them loose.
(2d6) A Cloak of ...
1st d6 (1 to 2) 2nd d6:
- Boiling darkness that cannot be driven off
- Dust & cobwebs
- Faces (living or dead, stitched and/or stapled)
- Feathers
- Fine cloth
- Severed Fingers
1st d6 (3 to 4) 2nd d6:
- Flayed human(oid) (possibly undead)
- Fur, luxurious or gore-stiffened (possibly prehistoric)
- Severed Hands (living or dead)
- Hair & eyeballs
- Reptile hide
- Tatters of cloth
1st d6 (5 to 6) 2nd d6:
- Tatters of own flesh, more than it should have
- Teeth (living or dead)
- Trail of frost that limns everything as it passes
- Whole animal pelt (possibly undead)
- Worms (living or dead)
- Writhing mist that clings to the Wight
(2d6) Crowned With ...
1st d6 (1 to 2) 2nd d6:
- A Living Thing
- Antlers
- Bony growth
- Copper
- Crystal growth
- Dead and dying roses
1st d6 (3 to 4) 2nd d6:
- Electrum
- Gold
- Gorgeous flowers
- Horned
- Iron
- Lead
1st d6 (5 to 6) 2nd d6:
- Silver
- Skull(s)
- Snakes
- Starry
- Thorns
- Vines & leaves
(2d6) The Eyes! Those Terrible Eyes ...
1st d6 (1 to 2) 2nd d6:
- Blinding light pours out when open
- Burning coals
- Carved from stone
- Closed with coins
- Cyclops
- Distant cold stars
1st d6 (3 to 4) 2nd d6:
- Empty sockets
- Feline, blazing
- Filled with worms
- Gemstones
- Held in hands
- Orbiting the Wight, possibly more than the expected two
1st d6 (5 to 6) 2nd d6:
- Out on stalks
- Ovine, glowing
- Sad, weeping
- Sewn shut
- You cannot meet their gaze
- Your own eyes looking back at you
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