Wraith

Activity

It never steps in Salt, so it never disturbs it. That includes Tier III Salt during hunts, which is useless against it.

Ability: teleport

Outside of hunts it can teleport to a random player. Where it appears, it leaves an EMF Level 2 reading at that player’s foot level, or an EMF Level 5 reading 33% of the time. Then it goes back to its normal behavior.

What the Wraith does NOT do

Despite what the journal says, the Wraith:

• Doesn’t float: not during hunts and not during manifestations. You can’t identify it by looking at its ghost model.
• Doesn’t see through walls or doors.
• Doesn’t walk quietly: its footsteps sound the same as most ghosts’.
• Doesn’t walk through walls, not even while hunting. It only walks through doors, like every ghost.
• Doesn’t avoid Salt on purpose: it doesn’t go around the piles, it simply ignores them.

How to identify it

Salt test.

• If Salt has sat undisturbed in its room for a long time, it could be a Wraith.
• To confirm it: during a fake hunt ghost event, when it appears in D.O.T.S or during a real hunt, place Salt right where it’s about to step. If it passes over it without disturbing it, it’s a Wraith. Careful: an enraged Gallu can also pass over Salt without disturbing it.
• Placing Salt in the center of the Summoning Circle and then summoning the ghost is a good way to spot it.
• Another option: place a line of Salt across a narrow passage it will almost certainly go through (for example, the doorway to its room) and one or two Motion Sensors on that doorway. If it sets off the sensors but never steps in the Salt, it’s probably a Wraith. The Salt has to cover the passage well (without wasting it). Tier II or III Salt makes this easier because it forms a long pile.

Teleport. It can cause some odd things:

• Interactions far from its favorite room, near where a player is (or recently was).
• EMF Level 2 or 5 readings that don’t come from any interaction, especially far from its room.

The Banshee and the Phantom also walk (without teleporting) to a player, and the Twins interact with faraway things. Of those, only the Phantom leaves these EMF readings when it approaches someone, but never Level 5 (it doesn’t have that evidence) and always at head level. A random EMF Level 5, or a random EMF Level 2 at floor level, almost certainly points to the Wraith. Having the Roaming frequency option on Medium or High can cause something similar. If you want, use Motion Sensors to see where the ghost really is when this happens.

Hunt

Teleporting doesn’t give it an extra chance to hunt, but if it meets the normal requirements it can start the hunt from where it appeared. With low average sanity, being almost anywhere in the investigation area is dangerous: don’t let a hunt that starts right next to you catch you off guard.

Change history

Version	Change
Alpha, 18 March 2020	Requires Freezing Temperatures as evidence instead of Dirty Water.
Alpha, 22 March 2020	No longer leaves footsteps during hunts.
Alpha, 23 March 2020	Its footsteps can be heard again when hunting, but it doesn’t leave footprints.
Alpha, 25 March 2020	Can leave footprints by stepping in a pile of Salt.
22 September 2020	No longer interacts with Salt during hunts. Later, no longer leaves footprints after stepping in Salt; in exchange, it has a higher activity limit.
0.3.0	Before this version, its evidence was Spirit Box, Fingerprints and Freezing Temperatures.
0.8.0	No longer steps in Salt at any time.