Wraith

Wraiths are incorporeal spirits that tend to have led very foul lives but managed to avoid being pulled into the Outer Darkness. They retain a desire for life, for only in life can they sin and have what they perceive of as “fun”. Wraiths are much more powerful than ghosts or spectres, but not quite as powerful as the rarer phantoms. Wraiths usually wait for prey in graveyards or abandoned places as their method of possession can be witnessed by other living, and that could ruin their plans. They are always draped in black, hooded cowls and appear to have dead skin. Though technically incorporeal, they are very tuned to the Physical World and are still rather substantial. They cannot exist in sunlight, as it will banish them from the mortal plane. However, as long as they stay in a dark place like a cave or crypt, they will be fine.

Once they find suitable prey, they will insinuate their own consciousness into their victim. They then have full control over the human body, but the human becomes undead. Now with pale skin and dead eyes, the wraith controls it like a spiritual parasite. Even in this form they must avoid direct sunlight or the body becomes ash and the wraith is forever sent into the Outer Darkness. Absinthe Van Gothen fought a wraith in Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery when she tried saving Arion and Ayana Bishop from Heloise Laveau. The wraith’s soul was one of the spirits required by Baron Samedi to aid him in opening the way forward.