Nightmare Reaper

A Sect monster riding a Nightmare steed and armed with a giant scythe. The Nightmare mount is not quite spirit and not quite flesh, and its touch is as cold as ice. A Reaper is an ally of the Sect and is not a Necromantic construct.

The mount seems to have come straight out from the netherworld, with tail and mane formed out of a cold­-burning fire and sparks of white­-hot fury struck from each pounding stride. It may even be preferable that such a creature can be found in the Land or summoned from outside. If Sect magicks created such a beast, the Necromancers certainly have grown stronger in their seclusion.

Nightmares are the favored mount of a reaper. This may be partly due to the fact that a reaper does not have a ranged attack, and so has developed a preference for riding down a victim on the ground, ‘harvesting’ the head with its flesh-­chilling scythe. Any victim seems to do, with the Nightmare Reaper often taking whomever is closest, not all that concerned with battle strategy or tactics.