Wight King

The Wight King is a monarch who refused to relinquish his crown even to death, a champion of some fallen kingdom bound by the magic of the Soulblight Gravelords to lead its skeletal legions once more. Encased in ancient armour and bearing a baleful blade or an infernal standard, he carries into unlife the martial genius and iron authority that made him great, and the deathrattle hosts move to his command with a discipline the mindless dead could never manage. Where a Wight King stands, skeletons fight with renewed ferocity, their blows falling harder and their ranks holding firmer, animated by the sheer force of his lingering will. He is no shambling relic but a canny and dangerous warrior, meeting enemy champions blade to blade and cutting them down with the accumulated skill of a lifetime and the tirelessness of the grave. To his vampire overlords he is an invaluable lieutenant; to his foes, a grim reminder that some kings simply cannot be deposed.