The Breathless Dead is the name given to the victims of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and 1919, during the closing years of World War I. Although wraiths created from plagues and pandemics are nothing new, the Breathless Dead play an important role during the Great War in the Shadowlands. * WTGW: Wraith: The Great War Rulebook, p. 28 , 39-41, 45