Bleakborn

Bleakborn, also known as Moilan dead or Winter Wights were, in life, human sorcerers loyal to Orcus, the Demon Lord of Undeath.

Description
Bleakborn were human corpses, preserved for eons by the bitter cold of their sunless resting place. As such, they tended to patches of ice on their rotting skin. Balefully jealous of mortals who could still feel warmth, they fed on the body heat of living creatures, without which they would go dormant.

History
The Bleakborn were once the Human citizens of Moil, a city in a world far from Dragonfall. Though Moil was a beautiful city, its inhabitants were dark-hearted sorcerers who worshipped Orcus. Over time, the people of Moil turned away from their dark master and sought redemption. Angered by their betrayal, Orcus cursed every inhabitant of the city, plunging them into an eternal slumber. Knowing that the curse would be broken by the light of the sun, Orcus cast the city into a sunless demiplane, where it lay dormant, its architecture slowly being transformed by the influence of the Negative Plane, which it bordered, and its citizens transformed into undead effigies of their former selves. The city was discovered by Acererak, eons later, when a portal to Moil formed in the Tomb of Horrors. Acererak quickly set about enslaving the Bleakborn, using them as labourers in the construction of his fortress on the edge of the negative plane, from which he intended to ascend to godhood. When Acererak's attempt at apotheosis was foiled in the year 489 by a party of adventurers who have long since slipped into obscurity, the gateway to Moil was sealed and the Bleakborn once again fell dormant, awaiting another mortal to discover the city and fall into their cold grasp.