Barghests (Witcher)

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Hostile Species
Full Name	Barghests
Alias	Spooky dog Bargtis Bo-guest Bargest
Origin	Witcher
Homeworld	Toussaint
Abilities	Poison immunity Enhanced speed Fire immunity Sharp teeth Sharp claws
Members	No information
Hobby	No information
Goals	No information
Crimes	Mass murders Assault Terrorism Destruction
Type of Hostile Species	Animal spirits

Barghests are recurring antagonists in the Witcher franchise, serving as supporting antagonists in the 2007 game The Witcher and minor antagonists of The Witcher 3 expansion Blood and Wine.

Description

It is a spirit that appears in this world only after it has been summoned here. It is believed that after a failed death, the soul returns to this world in the form of a ghostly dog. According to the plot of one legend, barghests appeared when one dog breeder was brutally killed. And this time they did not disappear until the last of the killers died.

Most often it takes the form of a huge black dog, surrounded by a green or yellowish ghostly glow, with burning eyes, huge claws and fangs.

Journal Bestiary Entries

Journal Bestiary Entry (The Witcher)

People say that barghests are specters which materialize as ghastly dogs and persecute the living. According to some folk tales these monsters are the scouts of the Wild Hunt. Other legends say the ghosts appear as a sign of divine retribution and embody revenge. However, all tales agree on one point: barghests show the living no mercy.

Journal Bestiary Entry (Blood and Wine)

Shun sin! Renounce foul deeds! And if evil threatens to overwhelm your will, ponder the fate of the Outskirts of Vizima! Remember the hideous barghests which scourged them and repent! – "Sermons for Feasts and Funerals," by the Reverend Yomen of Tretogor

Folk of simple or superstitious minds claim committing particularly rotten acts will bring down the wrath of the gods in the form of "barghests," phantom dogs which stalk the roads at night. Even if this were their origin, barghests saints and sinners alike would need fear barghests, for they attack both with equal ferocity. Witchers rarely believe in the gods, but they do accept that barghests exist and are always connected with some sequence of tragic events that happened in the past. Their explanation, however, holds that barghests result from a curse or a concentration of ill will.

Barghests, like wolves, are stronger in packs. Together they surround their prey, leaping at it and tearing it apart with their teeth. If their prey defends itself too determinedly, they strike it with a blast of phantom fire. Since they are fast and agile, they can easily evade attacks directed at them.

They cannot be burned, but fire hurts them as if they were of flesh and blood. The Axii Sign also works on them.