Wights

Wights are spirits that inhabit the skeletal bodies, many of them are born from the cemetery or from the ground. The rest are those who passed away reincarnated as a wight through the use of performing rituals. (It was more specific to children who had been robbed of their life in the past) They bear spiritual and mythical properties that could allow them to conjure life energy to manipulate and channel life energy, being the antithesis to necromancy. To make up a human form to blend in with others in the world of Abexilas. 
Otherwise, they may face persecution by exorcists, too which on some occasions, they shed their own flesh to enjoy comfort with solely rags and their skeletal frame. Wights are known to be impulsive, and instinctive by nature with multiple variants of their kind with an unusual habit to mutter or chuckles, to which they are notorious to brought about dread due to their natural tendencies for giving laughter in the face of death.
=== Background ===
They also bear an odd behavior of coating the body in salt, or pink salt being their most desirable mineral. It has been theorized it is used for preservation, cleansing, and warding off spirits. It is relatively utilized for aesthetic when it comes to their clothing laced with salt as well, they like to use salt to tenderize meat and the base form of seasoning. Preservation from salt is significant for the longevity of keeping flesh in pristine condition. It synthesizes with purification of the soul from influences and purge the tainted soul of impurities from certain or unknown circumstances. The reign of the Wight King from the forgotten kingdom, had relied on an army of ghouls for manpower and to bolster their strength. 
The lingering issue is decay being an unavoidable formula regardless of the nutrients the undead like ghouls may consume. Since the body of the undead are usually unable to sustain themselves with maintenance to slow down the inevitable early stages of rotting. The forethought that the solution was more apparent due to the use of salt the indulge in leisure, being that they could enhance the ghouls with salt from the lost salt temple. With alchemy and minor experimentations creating the preserved ghouls indefinitely become more durable for war with an expanded lifespan. The Wight King decree is for the mandate that will gradually phase out the current ghouls with the preserved variant to create a mighty legion. 
They used to inhabit corpses in general until the issue lies with their bodies starts rotting, infested with pathogens and bacteria that also produced a foul odor. Each body would be prepared with sanitation and cleanliness, making the Wights hygienic individuals. It makes the need for fine apparel all the more likely once they discovered they could make a human body of their own by temporarily reanimating their skeletal frame to have flesh and organs. Discovering the sensation of 6 natural sense that felt like a fine luxury compared to remaining an undead figure utilizing their supernatural senses, and telepathic communication. It would be mistaken that the Wights are undead, since they are forged from the power to create life, thus they are given existence as the new life-form being the bridge between life and death, as they exist for the sole purposed to be raised as servants for their vampiric lords. 
The Wights are in a constant state of dying, with no memories of who they once were in their past life due to the consequences of being the byproduct of biomancy that is parallel to necromancy performed on a skeletal remain. They are quite fond of being human due to the pleasures of eating and drinking. There is a time when they are group that was once subservient to other races, primarily vampires until they were deemed to be expendable, and fodder treated as rubbish, lead to inciting the Wight Rebellion. After the tragedy of once a nameless wight after losing his master, who grew up with him as a child, had succumb to his emotions for the first time, the rattling of his bones brimming with madness. An even that would alter the course of the destiny for their kind being able to rise above as the Wight King. 
The skeletal community are not to be mistaken for being undead, as they were imbued with life that are nearly unconstraint from the mortality of flesh, too which it is unknown as to why, or how they have a lifespan as they almost live forever with their souls that depart from the remains. Which makes them distinct from any ghoul or zombie in particular for the longevity and lack of maintenance in comparison. Making them an unusual species to behold looking back into the constant state of dying making life all the more demeaning to them, too which after the liberation from vampires, they now roam the world and make their own place of living with a pristine photographic memory. As the Wights will never forget, yet they are not vengeful, as there is more to life then hate, not that it was an option as any resentment or grudges they hold are shortly temporary. 
There has been the reoccurring question as to Wights having a soul gives them life or is it the life energy within that makes them sentient that gives them desire and the means to live. To such, from their own perspective, it is irrelevant, as what they express is real to them, and the journey, the knowledge, and memories they have accumulated are what makes them people overall. That would later transition into the notice that new generation of wights could inhabit the craftsmanship of human dolls made from certain materials as a gamechanger compared to the usual skeletal frame, to which more traditional wights prefer to uphold while others choose an artistic approach of adopting a chimera of skeletal and doll like appearance. The oldest generations of the current living wights have been nearly a thousand-years-old, who are known to be quite knowledgeable with history, portray themselves to be a living archive for the secrecy, alchemy, and mythology. 
Wights are unable to copulate themselves without relying on other species to have children of their own, otherwise they are best to stick with rituals that allows them to make wight children. If the child were to be of mixed heritage, they bear the traits aligned with their interspecies partner, hence the lack of physical resemblance to their Wight mother or father human counterpart. 
=== Occult Attire ===
Wights originally bear a tapestry of gothic and Victorian apparel in their appearance, while some instances it is traditional to wearied ragged robes and monk attire that stay attributed to their heritage. A few continue to wear a broken chained shackle on their neck to remind them of the hardship they had endured. Until they Corrian Branch took on a more nautical and amphibia attire to match the worship with the Prayer of Corry. 
=== Wight Sorcery and Longevity ===
The elderly along with the current Wight King recalls that though they are creatures that may be almighty, they are not invincible, as dragons for an example can be subtle to certain poisons, or succumb to the Gorgons gaze, resulting in the target being turned to stone from petrification, to which they have safeguarded box sealed by spellbinding contain what was once the last remaining Gorgon's head in pristine condition is blindfolded since its gazing curse remains active regardless of death. There is a reason they are an extinct species due to being an immense threat, or how valuable they were to entrap in dungeons and tombs to safeguard treasure or keep people away. 
They are wondering people who branched off from the rest of the community, have made a fateful encounter with the Corrian Nomads. This interaction led to them adopting their physical identity being a major entourage with their use of navigation being knowledgeable with the world were essential for their safety and living space. An affinity for the communing of spirits and otherworldly maleficent beings like the Vatzuartzorlyx. 
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