Ghouls

Ghouls, also known as wights, are mindless reanimated corpses that prey upon flesh. Ghouls can either be directly controlled by a necromancer, or released after being reanimated to wander and devour. Ghouls have no higher thought processes, and are only capable of moving, attacking and consuming. Bodies that have reanimated soon after death are more aggressive, strong, and mobile. Ghouls that have been reanimated long after death, or ghouls that have been reanimated long ago and have since deteriorated, are lesser threats. Some ghouls have spent as long as decades in dormancy, waiting for living souls to draw close. Ghouls can produce garbled screeches and groans. They are incapable of smell, and have dulled sense of sight, instead using hearing to detect prey.
Other species than humans can be reanimated so similar effects.
== Trivia ==
* The word "ghoul" comes from Horadric.
* Ghouls are known as draugr in Nornic.
* Ghouls are alternatively known as rot shamblers.
* The reanimated bodies of those that drowned are occasionally referred to as drowned ones.
* While ghouls are not inherently poisonous, and their bites can be treated, they are typically lethal, seeing as the corpses carry many diseases and parasites