Slaughter wighs: Chaotic evil?

[pawsplay]

Not that necessarily understood why Spectres and Wights were LE before, but... why is the slaughter wight CE when ordinary wights are always LE?

 

[frankthedm]

The Slaughter wights go about wrecking shop on a whim. I'd guess the LE undead are set in their ways and behaviors.

1E specters were sent back from LE Hell, so they probably get part of that from being turned into a specter.

Did not one have to be a leader of some type to get a significant Barrow?

 

[pawsplay]

Slaughter weights are specifically described, as well, as stalking cities as assassins. If not LE, then NE, focused as they are on killing.

 

[freyar]

It may be that WotC just picked the wrong alignment for the described behavior; they've done it in other cases (the 3.5 "fire archons" from the 4e preview days of the WotC website spring to mind, but I've seen examples from TSR recently, too).

 

[pawsplay]

Good point. I'm just going to assume they wrote CE on the slaughter wight when it should have been LE. It's funny, I was just wondering what would happen if you advanced a wight and added Lurking Terror to it, then got to thinking about Eviscerator and Death Master because of a wight-like creature from the old Companion set that caused fear... then I noticed the slaughter wight, which is very close to basically that. But it's CE, with no expalnation I can discern.