Crooked Man

The Crooked Men are a type of undead monster which feature in Wyrd Games’ Malifaux universe.

Description
The rotted cadavers of workers lost to cave-ins within the soulstone mines outside of the city of Malifaux, Crooked Men dress in the tattered remnants of their work overalls, and usually carry the tools which they employed during their living days, along with whatever horrific injuries they sustained at the point of their deaths.

Occasionally, a Resurrectionist will encounter the bodies of these poor lost souls when delving deep beneath the earth in search of soul stones or the lost knowledge of Malifaux’s former rulers. They will reanimate the bodies of the miners which, like many creatures brought back from the dead by necromancy in Malifaux, retain a certain memory of the skills they possessed in life. For the most part, they are simply put to work along with their new masters’ other creations in search of whatever it was he was looking for in the first place, but some enterprising Resurrectionists will use them in a slightly different manner.

In this case, they can be used in a number of ways: they may be commanded to dig great caverns beneath the assets of their masters’ enemies, destroying their bases of power, or they may simply be instructed to roam the soul stone mines, denying the power of these artefacts to others. But in other instances, they will burrow beneath a location known to be frequented by said individuals and await a time when they can burst from beneath the earth and drag their targets down to a horrible fate.