Phantasmal Undead

Undead, bodiless souls, non-corporeal undead.

Apparition

Phantasms that exist across cultures.

Ghaistaz

A phantasmal undead being who is ritually created by trapping an ancestral soul. They seek to kill their living descendants and absorb their souls.

Ghost

An intelligent phantasmal undead figure. One who can communicate, wield magic, and interact with mortals. They have a variety of powers depending how they died, what they were in life, and why they are a ghost.

Haunt

A phantasmal undead figure bound to a place, but not necessarily of the place, though they often are. They have some control over the location and are bound via powerful magic, but finding a way to remove them sends them to the afterlife.

Phantom

An insubstantial image of the previously living, a voiceless, mindless, flicker of their soul with an aura of unease and little else to affect the world around them.

Shade

A mostly invisible phantasmal figure that cannot communicate except with mediums or others who are sensitive to death, undeath, spirits, or souls. They are unable to affect the world unless they have possessed someone.

Spectre

A phantasmal undead being who has command over other phantasmal undead. They can see into the afterlife and try to pull souls out of it. They are extremely powerful and dangerous.

Wraith

Ancient and powerful undead who drain the lifeforce from people, wield powerful weapons and magic, and command weaker undead. They are often the elite forces of nemortsi or other powerful undead figures, but some are leading undead figures in their own right.

Forsaken

Phantasms based on folklore.

Cyhyraeth

A disembodied voice which calls out to those who are about to die.

Drosoulite

Phantasmal ghost soldiers in a phantasmal army that marches on specific days and times.

Dybbuk

A phantasm that clings to the body of a host and uses them to perform a specific task.

Fetch

A phantasm of a person who appears just as that person dies, revealing itself to someone who loved them to mark their passing and possibly take someone with them.

Iannic-ann-od

Drowned souls crying out in pain.

Kääbas

A phantasm that guards a grave or tomb.

Myling

The ghost of a child seeking someone to bury them properly. They jump on the backs of travelers at night and weigh them down until they die.

Poltergeist

Chaotic ghosts which disrupt households and other places with violent disregard.

Sluagh

Undead fairies who drag people away to remote places, cause destruction in their path, and bring mischief and chaos.