The crypt-wrapped is a powerful form of undead, left to sleep the centuries away and spring to "life" should it or those it was set to guard ever be disturbed.

Crypt-wrapped are artifacts of a long ago society which inhabited what has become the Garnet Desert since the Dwarvan Cataclysm. They are found only in the tomb complexes which lie scattered about the rocky outcroppings of the desert, variously coming and going with the drifting of the deep sands.

Like most undead, the touch of the crypt-wrapped is antithetical to living flesh, and causes loss of experience points. The crypt-things are also ferocious, and relentless. They may even follow adventurers if not destroyed, to wreak havoc on those who thought themselves safely fled back to civilization.