Wight

A Wight, in /tg/ media, is a form of undead creature similar to a zombie, but possessing superior mental abilities without the craving for flesh that bedevils a ghoul.

Dungeons & Dragons

The wight has been a constant member of the Dungeons & Dragons army of the undead, presented as intelligent and malevolent free-willed animated corpses with the ability to drain levels. Starting from Tolkien's barrow-wights, they usually dwell in their own tombs and arise only when those tombs are being trespassed.

Their level drain ability (with no saving throw!) combined with their immunity to everything but magic and silver weapons, as well as Tom Moldvay's decision to include them in the Basic Set therefore low-level modules, made them absolutely terrifying in those early editions. 5e nerfed them hard, turning their level drains into temporary loss of maximum hit points, but also giving them proficiency in melee and ranged weapons, allowing them to attack from a distance if they choose to do so.

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Vampire: The Masquerade

Wights are what vampires become after their Humanity or Path of Enlightenment rating drops to 0, and the Beast takes them over completely. They're essentially a smart-ish animal that knows only to kill, feed, and sleep. If their willpower is high enough, they might have a limited grasp of Discipline use and strategy, along with a few vague memories and skills from their previous existence. Unless they were natural monsters before falling, they probably won't kill everything in sight so long as they're not hungry and in immediate danger. Some may even try and pursue interests related to their nature.

Wights can be pretty threatening - while they're dumb as a sack of rocks, they're also goddamn tough and have no sense of pain, letting them soak lethal and bashing damage more easily. They're also near-impossible to influence through mental-focused Disciplines like Presence or Obfuscate due to being completely bestial. They also have zero compunctions about Diablerie if they knew about it while sane, is an obvious problem for any poor schmuck running into them.

The good news is that they tend to be hit with a Blood Hunt on sight due to the threat they pose to the Masquerade and other vampires, with very few Wight packs lasting for long. They're also extremely susceptible to Frenzy and Rötschreck, meaning that True Faith, fire, and sunlight are very likely to send them screaming for the hills at the mere sight of them.

Draugr

The Draugr, or revenants, are Vampire: The Requiem's counterpart to wights. They are just beasts with no sense of self who will indiscriminately kill and attack people.

Warhammer Fantasy

In the Warhammer Fantasy setting, wights are the animated skeletons of ancient warlords and champions who were buried in funeral mounds scattered throughout the Empire. The special treatment given to these corpses at their death makes them stronger and more intelligent than the run-of-the-mill skeletons - the lingering enchantments on their weapons don't hurt - and thus they are some of the most potent heavy troopers and champions in the armies of the Vampire Counts that aren't actually vampires themselves.

Examples of wights in Warhammer Fantasy include

• Wight Kings, who lead the armies of undead legions on behalf of vampires or necromancers.
• Krell, Heinrich Kemmler's executioner and former member of Nagash's elite champions.

Monstergirls

The MGE Wight shows one way to differentiate between a Wight and a Zombie.

This article or section is about Monstergirls (or a monster that is frequently depicted as a Monstergirl), something that /tg/ widely considers to be the purest form of awesome. Expect PROMOTIONS! and /d/elight in equal measure, often with drawfaggotry or writefaggotry to match.

Since a "wight" is usually defined as just a "zombie with free will and intelligence", it should be no surprise that they can sometimes get the same monstergirlifying treatment from those unafraid of necrophilia.

Perhaps the most prominent example of a wight MG on /tg/ is found in the Monster Girl Encyclopedia. Here, they are a unique strain of zombie that either arose from the corpse of an aristocrat or adventurer, or was a zombie mamono that built up a truly incredible level of magical energy through constant sex. They possess great magical powers, if not in the same way as a lich, and create dark kingdoms full of undead type monstergirls where they rule as pampered aristocrats.

It can be said that their ownership of such kingdoms is due to their "Wight Privilege".