Category:Rushlight

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Rushlights are evil undead spirits composed of ethereal flame, and look like a flaming ball of a person's agonized face and hands. They are formed when an evil person is immolated alive on a funeral pyre. Such practices are often used by the inquisitors of Tepest and similar societies to scour the evil from people condemned to death.^[1]

For the most part, Rushlights are invisible when viewed directly; but they can be detected using peripheral vision. The spell detect invisible will make them fully visible to the naked eye.^[1]

During the day, they bury themselves into the ground where they met their terrible death and arise at night to seek living victims.

Rushlights can be found in the following domains: Mordent^[2], Tepest^[3]

Descriptive Text

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It is one of the laws of nature that one can never foresee all the consequences of one's actions. I have in mind the haunting of Kilbarrow, that village in Tepest where the Inquisition had so notable a "success", and burned seven reputed witches to death in one afternoon.

The burning did not end there; after the Inquisitors had gone on their way the good people of Kilbarrow found their pets, their livestock, and finally their children burned to death, one by one, by the vengeful spirits of the murdered, until all were forced to flee.

Such was the purification the Inquisition brought to Kilbarrow.

-private journal of Magda Lammaster, cleric of Hala^[4]

References

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III Denizens of Darkness
		Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III - p95 Denizens of Darkness - p132
		Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III - p95 Denizens of Darkness - pp131-132
		Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium III - p95 Denizens of Darkness - pp131-132