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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 3309464" data-attributes="member: 1164">My idea was along the lines of a married fighter, some sort of military leader, noble born perhaps was being courted by the succubus hiding her true nature. She providing him information on his foes while getting him to warm up to her. Usually a loyal man, he had rejected the succubus’s advances, but would not send her away for her talents as a spy were too valuable. He suspected something, for a spy to work for free seemed too good to be true but as victories came to him without drawback, his pride swelled he believed she  simply felt challenged by her carnal advances being turned down, as had been the circumstance of their first meeting.In reality the succubus spy was ensuring his victories to destabilize many key areas of a region. She had managed to goad him on a path of victories that would leave areas ripe for demonic influence, allowed her to kill a group of four children who had been prophesized to become great heroes and made sure the fighter was away from his family for a good amount of time. For she was old and powerful and had great pride of her own. No one had turned down her advances in some time. She knew she could overpower him physically or magically, but she wanted the challenge of actually seducing the man. Eventually his resolve wore away and she won, the details there of can be made up by those who use the idea. Afterwards she saw to it several casks of Dwarven wine and spirits were presented to the troops. Afterward she flew off to bask in the glow of her personal victory. His soulless husk awoke the next night hungry for life force. He first snuck into the tent with the wounded. As his claws drank their ebbing life force, he gained strength. Soon many of his units, worn thin already by marching to victory too often and suffering from their first experiences with Dwarven alcohols had been drained and had become wights themselves. Under a vague hunch of betrayal, the Wight lead his troops in pursuit of those who had deserted him. When he caught up to one of his high ranking generals, the general tried to reason with him, explaining that it seemed the spy was somehow behind this. While it did not save the general, the general’s words did strike home with the Wight commander, making him realize he had a goal of vengence.Time past and their numbers diminished. Divine intervention nearly decimated the entire band, but the battles had toughened many of their number. The commander’s memories, still hazy from undeaths hunger, caused him to seek out his family.When he arrived home, he discovered his wife’s journal. Due to those who had escaped their reenlistment into his soulless army, she had received word of his undeath. Her words were grief stricken and made it painfully clear was going to take her own life. As he threw the journal down, her now incorporeal form appeared before him. Her ties to him had kept her in this world. She now follows the band of wights, seeking what pushed her beloved into undeath. She does not know her husband was first seduced. Should she be presented with this knowledge, her allegiance to the band will weaken or disappear.</blockquote>

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