Mite

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Ghast

Species	undead
No. Appearing	1–6
Behaviour	resentful
Range	ruin, subterranean
Size	4 to 6 ft. tall
Weight	135 lbs.
Intelligence	2
Armour Class	4
Hit Dice	4
Action Points	5
Max. Stride	4
THAC0	18
Hp/Die	d6
Attack Forms	claw/claw & bite
Damage	1–4/1–4 & 1–8
Special Attacks	carrion stench, immune to sleep, charm, and protection from malevolence, paralysation

These small creatures are not a race unto themselves, but rather grotesque, spiritually poisoned sprites that have become consumed by their baleful vices and compulsions. Hating other sprites and themselves, their obsession with malevolence has mutated their minds and their bodies. Malignant and cruel, sometimes in pairs or threesomes, these creatures steal away from the sun, seeking dark places and victims for themselves.

Mites are very clever and will hone themselves as thieves, rising as high as 5th level. They specialize in skulduggery and especially in setting and removing traps. Though small, they will arrange trap doors and sliding chutes intended to imprison their victims in small traps, where they can be patiently poisoned, starved or bled to death. Mites prefer the taste of larger humanoids, disdaining the taste of other food and particular of good faeries. The more disdainful the humanoid, the better the flesh tastes to a mite.

The bite of a mite is toxic and has the potential to impart some of the mite's malefic nature to the subject in the form of a curse. Any who are bitten must make a saving throw against magic, receiving a +1 bonus for every point of wisdom above 12. Once cursed, victims will be apparently unaffected, but will immediately refuse to harm any mite, or prevent a mite from taking action. Until the curse is lifted, the victim will be unable to cease defending the mite or flee until reduced to less than 20% of their hit points. Whereupon they will return to normal, until meeting another mite. This curse will persist even after the originating mite is dead, as a part of the mite's will lives on in the victim.

Mites will often create complex tunnels near potential victims, with these passages being as small as four inches in diameter. Mites are particularly fond of targeting isolated farms, waiting for their chance to kill off members of the humanoid family one by one, often succeeding in doing so without alerting the residents.

See Bestiary