Editing Revenant (section)

==Variants==
As with almost any species of Other Revenants come in innumerable variants, including cultural variants. 
===Ephemeral===
Those that depart after they achieve their purpose, this doesn't mean they can't be reignited.<ref name="Imp"/>
===Persistent===
Those that stick around due to some bug or some other means, such as going after those who resemble their original target.<ref name="R1"/>

This of course discounts those bound under the [[Seal of Solomon]].
===Notable examples===
*Soldier boy<ref name="11.1"/>
*[[Tallowman|Betrayed candlemaker]]<ref name="6.7">“Tallowman. Originally thought to be possessed, modern thought points to him being a revenant. Died, or suffered some gruesome injury, but didn’t go down. Soul couldn’t rest, too hungry for revenge, basically a serial killer zombie. The spirit didn’t leave the body, and the body came back for unfinished business.”<br><br>“How’d he die?”<br><br>“Loner, as the story goes, a talented candlemaker who scrimped and saved to buy a woman’s love. He was betrayed by greedy brothers and their families who wanted the savings. Multiple stab wounds, left to die, he filled them all with candle wax, then lurched to his feet and kept going. He got a few of the peripheral family members, others severed his head, then left it be. His body kept going, as the story says, driven by hate, it separated the body fat of the ones he’d killed to make more wax, stuck his head back in place and patched the other wounds.”<br><br>“Resourceful fellow,” I commented. “Would have helped if the family didn’t keep leaving the body behind.”<br><br>“Yeah, well, that was the pattern. Multiple attempts at stopping him, bludgeoning, trapping him, severing limbs, and each time, he got a few of them, used the fat to fix himself, patching up the wounds and replacing the missing parts, and he kept going, until it came to the brothers. He was stopped when the brothers took refuge in a church, repenting. Coincidence or no, the church candles melted some of the wax holding him together, and he burned up. The priest had heard them repenting the murder and theft, they went to jail, yadda yadda.”<br><br>“Weak to fire as the big con?”<br><br>“Something like that.”<br><br>I nodded. “That’s a problem, when we’re talking about the Eye. Pros?”<br><br>“He’s described as diligent, before he went all monster. The book that records his history suggests he’s been summoned with some regularity, and not just by diabolists. Maybe he’s the kind of guy we can keep on hand to do some of the mundane stuff for my sake, and if trouble comes up, we light his wick and point him in their direction.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/05/13 Excerpt] from [[Subordination 6.7]]</ref>
*[[Pizza Man|Delayed Delivery Dude]]<ref name="R1">The Revenant ('the pizza man') is a force of revenge. He doesn't need to sleep and doesn't need to eat. He gets nourishment from revenant touchstones - tokens, charms, or rituals of his former life. So his 'three meals a day' would be something akin to visiting a child's grave, checking on the granddaughter of his onetime family member, and taking steps to ensure that his onetime focus of revenge is forever erased from history (gravestone defaced, library records tracked down and scrubbed, house burned down and the remains sorted through for every last trace). The same kinds of things used as touchstones are the things that are used in the summoning of a given revenant. Words, phrases, ideas, or items relevant to what the revenant would 'eat' if they were active and free, etc. Eventually the connections will be too tenuous, he'll start to go. There's a chance something would turn up (a long lost relation of his former revenge target) and he'd go after that with all the fury and power he had earlier on when he was new to the world, and there's also the possibility of reigniting the flame with murder (again, there might be an objective here: people similar by some demographic or distantly tied to the original revenge target, etc), potentially setting up new revenge targets if conditions can be met, perpetuating himself (the violence he commits stirs more violence and his target does something sufficient to create another revenant, but instead that energy renews/spurs this revenant on). There's actually a few other paths, while I'm talking the revenant life cycle, including passing on the mantle and the power.<br><br>If he's not able to do any of the above (and it's semi-unlikely), he'd gradually lose strength and power over time. He'll be liable to flame out in a final burst of violence, spending all of his personal power at once (at which point he might be well stronger than usual, but reckless and short lived), but local practitioners know to keep an eye out for this. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/8r4hha/_/e0qz9pn/ What others do all day]</ref>
*Jo Steck, Tattooed Survivor<ref>
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O7zIP49SfHf41c7G3HL5LLWYw8VWQY3t5tmC-YCapE4 Example Revenant] by Wildbow</ref>
*[[Charles Abrams|Charles']] Unknown Suspect<ref>“I was scarier then, even if I didn’t realize it. Revenant came tearing through. Horror movie stuff, custom endings for each of us, starting with the lowest rank guys, then moving up. Attacked our business, our alliances, stock, money, revealed secrets. Crucified one guy with rebar she’d hooked up to a heat source, took the bones out of a woman’s arms and legs and left her in a shallow hole in the rain, to drown. She had a vendetta in the way only the vengeful undead can. And the thing that got me was… we had ''no idea'' who it was.”<br><br>“Each death is a hint,” Alexander said. “But you know that.”<br><br>“Yeah. The revenants need to stay anchored in this world. They do it with keepsakes, which means you’ve got to look for the places they hit before they start coming after people. Reach the start of the trail before they get to the last of you. And we couldn’t. The guys I was working with cooperated, I told them to investigate and they did. We contacted police, we were everywhere. We narrowed it down to a certain neighborhood, a select few people, and couldn’t get any further than that.”<br><br>“How’d you get out of it?” Raymond asked.<br><br>“I didn’t. She got the third, second, and the top guy. I pulled out all of my tricks. A few of my monsters, and she still got me. Decided I wasn’t directly involved enough to die, so she’d leave it up to fate. Handcuffed me in the electrical room of an abandoned warehouse with a lot of the evidence. Cops eventually came, and I got my first stint in prison.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/05 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 7.x]]</ref>