Editing Revenant (section)

==Nature==
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, individuals who’ve suffered grievous and fatal wounds, but they refuse to stay dead.--> 
Can be 'sponsored' in their 'creation' at least one revenant claimed to have dragged themselves back to life by himself. Most only return to life long enough to accomplish a goal, such as a mother returning long enough to save their kidnapped child and bury the kidnapper, or a businessman returning to life a day or two in order to get his affairs in order to leave a legacy behind. Once they've accomplished this they normally cease to be.<ref>If my brain was a book, I would have spent the next several seconds flipping pages, trying to find that section where the bit on revenants pointed to subtypes.  ''Varieties.''<br><br>Most had a mission.  When the mission was done, the revenant ceased to be.  He hadn’t.  A mother might return from the dead to rescue her daughter and trap the kidnapper in her stead.  A murder victim would murder the murderers, a man might return to maintain his business for one or two more nights, so his legacy would be sure to keep running.<br><br>[[Pizza Man|He]] ''didn’t'' have a mission.  There was a bug in the system that had brought him back. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/08/19 Excerpt] from [[Mala Fide 10.2]]</ref>

However, when there is so much hatred driving the soul that it clings to the body and forces it to move they can become revenge-driven killing machines, described as serial killing zombies with a theme by [[Blake]]. Should they not be able to accomplish this goal, due to the death of the one who they sought revenge against, they might linger around and calm down.

They usually have the ability to return after being 'killed' or destroyed,<ref name ="6.7"/> able to revive themselves thanks to their connection to the Incarnation of [[Death]].<ref name="11.1">Revenants were, I knew, something between a zombie and a bogeyman.  They came back from the dead, usually with a mission in mind, and a specific timeframe or pattern they needed to follow.  Most didn’t know enough to keep themselves going after they achieved their success or failure.<br><br>The revenant, I knew, could sometimes get away with being a hero, insofar as a vigilante was a hero.  They weren’t the types to turn a criminal in for the cops to prosecute, after all, but when a gang killed enough people in horrible ways, the revenant could rise and eliminate them.  Another example I’d read had been a soldier that had surrendered, along with his comrades, only to watch each be tortured to near-death and then brutally executed, with him last.  He’d returned a year to the day to hunt down the enemy soldiers and deliver punishments that were ''worse''.  In certain circles, he’d been seen as a hero.  A benevolent spirit.<br><br>Not so common for bogeymen.  If I even was a bogeyman. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/06 Excerpt] from [[Malfeasance 11.1]]</ref> They could be considered a related species to [[Dogs of War]] as they both derive from incarnations, Dogs are formed from a collective of people however and deal with the Incarnation of War not Death.<ref>“<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[John Stiles|John]]]’s a Dog of War, known in some circles as Dog Tags. I think his name is an older equivalent to John Doe, but for soldiers. When warzones are at their ugliest and most chaotic, and people start losing track of who is where, who is alive and who is dead, certain Others may crop up on the battlefields. Ones that fight, so long as there is conflict around them. If the soldiers in that war are killing innocents, so will the Dogs of War. If they commit other atrocities, so will the Dogs. They don’t sleep, they keep the battle going, and as long as the battle continues, they don’t stay down. Related to Revenants, but Revenants are the province of Death, not War.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/19 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.4]]</ref>
===Anchors===
While their anchors, also known as death tokens or touchstones;<ref name="R1"/><ref name="Ver">“She’s a revenant, I think!” Verona called out.  “Won’t stop!  There might be a token she’s tied to.  Sometimes an animal, sometimes a trinket, or weapon!” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2023/08/19 Excerpt] from [[Finish Off 24.16]]</ref> are commonly objects (including weapons) they can also be living things like people<ref>Bullet casing.  Tattoo gun.  The bandanna her daughter had worn.  The lawyer who had helped her pro-bono and suffered for crossing Jo’s father.  Two photographs that her father had kept as mementos; one photograph of her daughter that Jo had taken, the very last before she lost custody of her, and one her father had taken, after the tattoos and degradation.  These are her anchors. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O7zIP49SfHf41c7G3HL5LLWYw8VWQY3t5tmC-YCapE4 Example Revenant] by Wildbow</ref> and animals<ref name="Ver"/> or simple 'rituals' that keep them grounded in life i.e. hobbies or continuing erasing traces.<ref name="R1"/>