Revenant

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Not to be confused with void revenant.
Revenant
Waveling HS.jpg
Faction/Affiliation Elemental Lords, Primalists, Scourge, Independent
Formerly:
Black Empire
Racial leader(s) IconSmall Neptulon.gifIconSmall Therazane.gifIconSmall Thunderaan2.gifIconSmall Smolderon.gif Elemental Lords
Homeworld Elemental Plane
Language(s) Kalimag, Ignan, Common
Icon-RPG.png Auran, Terran, Aquan

Revenants are armored elemental creatures. They look similar to floating suits of crude armor carrying large weapons and giant shields. Like other elementals, they were once soldiers of the Old Gods in the Black Empire before being banished to the Elemental Plane.[1]

The most famous revenant was the Guardian, protector of Frostmourne.

Types of revenant

In Warcraft III

WC3RoC-logo.png This section concerns content related to Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos or its expansion The Frozen Throne.

An undead revenant in Warcraft III.

Revenants are hateful undead creatures who are outside the domain of Ner'zhul's control. Bonded to base elemental spirits, these phantom creatures live only to rage and use their powers for destruction.[2] They have the ability to cast elemental magics according to their type.

Elemental revenants
Sea revenants
Death revenants
Others

In the RPG

Icon-RPG.png This section contains information from the Warcraft RPG which is considered non-canon.

Revenants are minor elemental creatures who once served as foot soldiers for the malefic Old Gods when the world was young. When the titans defeated the Old Gods and chained them beneath the cold earth, the wicked revenants and their greater elemental cousins were banished to the Elemental Plane. Locked away from the world they once ruled, the fire of the elementals' hatred for the titans and their creations burned with increasing intensity. As the millennia passed, reckless mortal wizards began to summon elementals back into the physical world. Free at last, many revenants struck out against the mortals that had summoned them and set out to forge their own destiny among their native elements in the world. These evil beings exist only to inflict strife and sow elemental chaos. Though they have limited intelligence, their sheer hatred and will to destroy make them fearful opponents when encountered in the wilds of the world.[3] Many still live on the Elemental Plane.

Note that the RPG appears to attempt to reconcile their naming/element scheme in Warcraft III with the current system of four (and only four) distinct elemental factions:

Trivia

  • The Warcraft III revenant model was originally created for the scrapped death knight hero unit (a different unit from modern death knights, who were originally called "anti-paladins").[8]
  • One of the two types of Drust constructs is based on the revenant model. It is also similar to revenants in nature, being composed of a spirit within a crude shell composed of a basic material (stone, in this case). The biggest difference is Drust constructs contain a captured soul, while the revenants are elemental spirits.
  • The word "revenant" in the real world normally refers to undead and not elementals. The word is sometimes used in this wider sense in Warcraft as well, as with Felborn Revenants, Grong, the Revenant, and the Restored Revenant.

Gallery

  • Concept art
  • Water
    Water
  • Earth
    Earth
  • Air
    Air
  • Fire
    Fire
  • Death
    Death
  • Lightning
    Lightning
  • Lightning
    Lightning

References

 
  1. ^ Adventure Guide entry for Ichoron
  2. ^ Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Game Manual, pg. 84
  3. ^ Manual of Monsters, pg. 84
  4. ^ Manual of Monsters, pg. 85
  5. ^ a b Manual of Monsters, pg. 86
  6. ^ Manual of Monsters, pg. 87
  7. ^ Manual of Monsters, pg. 88
  8. ^ WarcraftIII.Net - Removed Units. Archived from the original on 2001-04-05.
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