So Saith the Wraith

So Saith the Wraith is an encounter in Where Dead Men Walk after Vile Bombardment that only shows up on Nightmare.
==Enemies==
*Reiner von Malhaven (2850 Gold, 240 XP, 150 Energy, 1 HP)
==Transcript==
===Introduction===
The path widens into a large clearing, with no egress save that from whence you came -- unless you want to blunder through the dense trees and bushes. This perturbs you. An open space, illuminated by the clouded moonlight, surrounded on all sides by dark forest...
"A good place for an ambush," Tessa whispers.
"Not so bloody good for us," Hugh replies, "seeing as how we're the poor sods who'd get ambushed."
"They're going to kill us!" someone hisses.
"It's hopeless!" another moans.
"I repent! I repent of my sins in the hour of my death!"
You frown. That was suspiciously melodramatic. It's almost as if...
The words of a cleansing spell fly from your lips.
"I repent! I... Oh. Sorry."
"Maybe things aren't that hopeless..."
"Fear and misery," you say. "Part of a spell. Or maybe an aura..."
Now it's Brachus' turn to intone sorcerous words. A wave of cerulean light washes over the clearing. In its wake a robed figure is revealed. The face beneath the shadows of its black hood is skeletal, and glares at you from malevolent, fleshless eyes. Glowing wings extend from its back, like those of an angel. But there's nothing celestial about them. Instead something indescribably sinister seems to throb within their incandescence.
"A wraith," Brachus declares.
"No mere wraith, demon!" the creature replies. Its voice is cold and empty, almost a void -- words formed from the soft and subtle absence of noise rather than its creation. "I am Reiner von Malhaven, a lord among my kind!"
"A von Malhaven?" you ask. "I thought you were all vampires."
"Hah! My kin are fools. Who would walk the night as a bipedal leech when they could become part of its black tapestry instead?"
"I see... And now you haunt a forest, while they all wallow in luxury within their castle?"
He makes no reply. But his eyes glitter like murderous gemstones, and blackness seems to writhe around his skeletal hands.
===Conclusion===
[New Brawl boss unlocked!]
"Oi, my cleaver went straight through his bloody head!" Hugh complains.
"You struck before I'd cast my spell," Brachus replies. "Try now."
Green light flashes across the metal.
"I am invincible!" Reiner crackles, the sound of a sinister inversion of merriment. "Your blades pass through my body as through it were shadow! My-"
He pauses and glances down, at the cleaver that's now buried in his ribcage.
"I doubt you've encountered many adventurers while haunting this worthless clearing," Brachus says. "So perhaps you're unfamiliar with one particular area of the lore concerning your kind. Your nocturnal intangibility offers no protection against magical weapons."
"Oh..."
Hugh's second blow shatters his skull.
Category:Where Dead Men Walk