Wraith (entity)
A wraith is an apparition of a person who is still alive, seen as an omen that the person is about to die. It is a Scottish word, first attested in English in 1513. Its modern connotations have been strongly affected by the ringwraiths in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien's wraiths were a form of undead creature. Unlike other undead, however, wraiths need not have passed through death to become undead. Instead, Tolkien's Ringwraiths were corrupted by evil such that they became purely soulless and under the control of Sauron, a powerful necromancer. In Dungeons & Dragons, wraiths are insubstantial ghost-like undead that drain life from the living with their touch. Creatures slain by a wraith's life-draining later rise as wraiths themselves. In the Legacy of Kain video game series, one of the main characters, Raziel, is a wraith. One form of a wraith is a ghost of someones emotion.It is said when a person dies with anger a wraith will be formed from the anger. One example of a wraith is a poltergeist.
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