Lore[]
The Barrow Wight exists only to follow orders and attack the adversaries of its master. Neither a sentient being nor a kindred spirit, it is but a zombie or an empty vessel.
Name Origin[]
Barrow-wights are wraith-like creatures in J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, based on the Old Norse Draugr. Barrow refers to the burial mounds they inhabited and wight is a Middle English word for "living being" or "creature", especially "human being". It does not necessarily mean "spirit" or "ghost"; it is cognate to modern German "Wicht", meaning small mythical creatures (also "Wichtelmännchen"). Tolkien borrowed this concept from Norse mythology.