Corporeal Ranks of the Winter Host

Skeletons: Stripped of flesh, their bones are their weapons when weapons are not in their hands. They are the least of the minions, but most plentiful. Their Winter Host Armaments are clumsily grasped by them, some even wired or pinned through their remains to ensure their use. The Frost Shroud covers their bones, providing only a minor layer of reinforcement. Skeletons strike with their knife-like fingers, or are armed with stone or obsidian daggers or spears and may carry leather shields – made from the hides of their fallen enemies.

Zombies: The corrupted flesh still clings, and a slavering hunger to feed upon the flesh of the living in order to preserve their own drives them. Their Winter Host Armaments are grasped by them, some armor even wired or pinned through their remains to ensure their use. The Frost Shroud covers them, providing a major layer of reinforcement over every surface. Zombies pummel with their club-like fists, or are armed with stone or obsidian daggers or spears.

Cold Brutes: Skeletons and Zombies are sometimes seen with “Cold Brutes” of their kind – twice the bone and viscera animated together to make a large, ponderous version of them. Armed with Bone Burrow spears made of animated material that burrow into flesh, or Ice Fang weapons normally only wielded by the Ghouls or Wights.

Ghouls: Consumers of flesh for sustenance, capable of great physical feats from the strength gained from it, they prowl for victims and seek to regain the flush and healthy countenance only the living can possess. They are used as shock troops and in the place of beasts of burden. Their rapid movements and shifting physical form cause the Frost Shroud to provide only a minor reinforcement to their bodies. Ghouls typically use improvised weapons or particularly strong one may be armed with Bone Burrow or Ice Fang weapons.

Wights: Once great warriors, their bodies preserved by their hatred and desire for revenge upon all the living and the civilization they still enjoy, that they once built. Their eyes burn with malice and intelligence, their skills undiminished in undeath. These undead focus their rage on the living, but if there are none within reach, they will destroy others of their nature to slake their thirst for vengeance. More than any other creature does the deliberate and tactical Wight benefit from the Frost Shroud, feeding its cold nature with their cold calculating malevolence to produce a covering fog around them. Wights are typically armed with the armaments they were buried with, or Ice Fang weapons.

Vampires: Consumers of blood for sustenance, their normally independent wills that pursue power over the living are bent to physical killing to make more corpses for the murderous horde. Their will and intelligence are used on the battlefield to coordinate their host and as special agents. The Frost Shroud provides only the most minimal of benefits to these dynamic roamers of the battlefield. Vampires are typically armed with the armaments they had when they passed into undeath.