Snow White Hills Blood Bowl Chronicles

It is clear that these are a step or two above the level of the most common Undead, the Zombies and the Skeletons. Wights are driven by a malign intelligence all their own, not the unquestioning allegiance of their lesser counterparts. Just as a powerful Necromancer will some day die and rise again as an Undead, all his vile powers intact, so can the greatest of the warrior heroes. Many of them are truly ancient, the remnants of an aboriginal, tribal people who once occupied the lands of the Empire thousands of years before it was so known. Many more, though, are of far more recent vintage, and it is truly said that one of the gravest dangers of any Imperial foray into Sylvania is that not only will we be providing the von Carsteins with the corpses of the rank and file soldiery to animate as Zombies and Skeletons, but also that if any of our true champions fall on the cursed soil of that land they will rise once more as Wights.: — Waldemarr, Scholar of Nuln