Wailing Dead

Medium undead, chaotic evil

The wailing dead are spirits of those who died in extreme anguish --- not merely pain, but the kind of soul-deep suffering that leaves a psychic scar on the place of death. Their appearance varies, but they universally manifest as twisted, elongated humanoid shapes wreathed in grey mist, their mouths perpetually open in a silent scream that becomes very, very audible when they attack. The wail of these creatures is not merely loud --- it is a weaponized expression of the agony that created them, a sound that resonates with the survival instinct of every living creature and tells it, simply, *die*.