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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fajitas" data-source="post: 2361191" data-attributes="member: 377">The bulk of the whys and wherefores were found in <a href="https://www.enworld.org/index.php?posts/2322401/" target="_blank">Petros's Journal</a>.  The Wraith Chieftan was a leader of the Go'nah-li, the Old Ones, barbarian tribes that lived in the Ketkath mountains before the Sovereigns came.  As the Sovereigns pushed East towards the Halmae, they killed or forcibly converted all the Old Ones that they came across.  As a result, the civilization of the Old Ones died out.Based on their means of dress and appearance, Petros speculated that the non-skeletal undead, the wights, ghouls, and wraith that were responsible for the tragedy at Bountiful were risen Old Ones, avenging themselves against the Sovereigns and taking  back the lands that were once theirs.  The priests were slaughtered and the temple desecrated because the priests are the symbol and spirit of the Sovereignty (and, well, 'cause these guys were undead).  The Chieftan's precise motivations for creating skeletons that thought they were still alive were never explicitly determined, and, alas, he is no longer in any position to enlighten the party.  Petros's best speculation is that he sought to create an unliving mockery of Sovereign society, an even worse horror than that which the Sovereigns visited on his people.</blockquote>