Revenant

Revenant: Folklore

In folklore, mostly of European cultures, revenants are especially similar to vampires, and zombies. They are the animated dead, though unlike zombies, they have free will. But unlike vampires, they do not drink blood, so much as kill, and cause evil in the towns nearby. There are a few documented cases of actual revenants, although ...
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Revenant: World of Darkness

The Revenants in the World of Darkness setting, first introduced through Vampire: the Masquerade, and later continued in Vampire: Requiem. There are two types of ghouls, and stay with me here, because this gets really confusing. Ghoul families are used as stock resources for food, hideouts, and other resources, for the vampires. The majority of ...
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Zombies

Zombies are one type of “revenant”, –they are the resurrected dead, however, they’re mindless, and have no free will, pr powers of speech, –or any actual power at all on Earth, except to serve the person who brought them back to life. The term is derived from zombi, or zonbi, and the act of actually ...
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Other Fun Undead People

Dhampir – A hybrid breed of vampire and human, though not usually quite dead, they’re not usually quite alive either, but still can’t technically be classified as “undead”. They do age much slower, and have a particular affinity for killing off their blood dependent cousins, the vampires. Draugr – The ghost of a dead Viking warrior, ...
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Revenant: In Fiction

In fantasy and horror fiction, as well as occasionally in film, a revenant is usually a human being that died violently, and is raised either by another source of magic, or by its own will, to fulfil revenge on its murderer. Usually the revenant is slightly less intelligent than it was in life, has missing ...
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