The Wailing Shrieker

A torn cleric’s-journal page looted from Henrik finally explains the necropolis ghost. A Wailing Shrieker (“She Who Wails”) forms when a grieving widow dies of despair (in the dark, on hallowed ground, beside her lover’s rotting corpse) and paranoid kings deliberately bred them, sometimes from whole unwitting harems, to guard their tombs. Fiercely jealous, intelligent, and fully non-corporeal, she haunts and defends her lover’s grave with a devastating scream and touch. She’s undone by exorcism, by destroying the lover’s corpse, by banishment, or by electric shock, and any flesh-giving spell makes her corporeal, which is exactly what Henrik’s changelings wanted: flesh to touch her and steal her form.

Book 4 appearances

• Chapter 26 — The torn page reframes Quetzalcoatlus and reveals why the changelings needed Wynne to give her flesh.

Related entries

• Quetzalcoatlus (Creature)
• Henrik (Character)
• Wynne (Character)
• The Necropolis of Anser (Place)

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