Subtypes

Revenant (Browbird Subtype)

🌟 Revenant browbirds are a mythic quest browbird subtype. You can apply this subtype using a Ritual of the Dead.

❗ THIS SUBTYPE IS A WIP! Designs are subject to longer review times and traits/availability may change at any time.

★ LOREBOOK

LORE TBA

 

★ INFO

★ REVENANT Basics

Revenants were powerful heroes and warriors that perished in battles or tragedies long past. They have been resurrected with a new soul and granted an immortal life, forever frozen in a state of decay.

In nearly all cases, a necromancy cannot stitch a soul into the body and will only result in a mindless zombie. The creation of revenants is a power only reserved for the few ancients who have fully mastered the death aspect.

In nearly all cases a revenant is a soul ripped from the dreamscape shoved into a corpse, the end result is an entirely new person devoid of nearly all personal memories of both past lives. They will understand the world, but most they may only get vague flashes of the past. There have been a few noted instances of the original soul of the body being preserved, but this usually required that the ancient isolate it in advance and even still these resurrections rarely turn out perfectly.

In modern times using death magic for this purpose is not permitted. In the past there were many who abused the power by resurrecting others for selfish or destructive reasons, and it is heavily frowned upon to toy with bodies and souls in this way. Most death ancients will perform the ritual of the dead in secret, or in moments of great desperation.

Living as a revenant could be considered torturous by some, especially those who never wished to be resurrected. When brought back, their body will always resemble exactly how it looked when the ritual concluded. They are cursed with bodies resistant to pain that always revert to their original state regardless of what injuries they endure. There is also an endless hunger that persists no matter how much they eat, only sated by devouring the magic of living creatures. (Like vampires!)

Revenants, even new ones, are also outcast in many places and feel forced into concealing their true forms, instead obtaining enchanted objects or learning glamour spells to conjure living disguises.

There is also an underlying fear of the undead from the common folk, stemming from the void wars of the past. During those times, revenants were created and bound to the will of their resurrectors as an immortal army that devastated the galaxy and left many places scarred and uninhabitable to this day. While some wartime revenants are still around, many have been resurrected after that period!

Normal life and acceptance can be difficult for a revenant, though some still choose to pour their (un)life into atonement. Others may decide to live at the edges of society to avoid suspicion or prosecution. For those that seek similar company there is a small faction, the frostguard, dedicated to fending off the horrors at the edges of reality using their immortality to their advantage.

Returning to death is nearly impossible, their bodies will persist until the ends of the universe even when everything else is gone. However, there is one way: a secret weapon devised by the palatine that can disintegrate a revenant entirely, finally allowing the soul to pass on.

★ Average Height: 4'0" to 7'0" (120cm - 215cm) 
★ Average Lifespan: Immortal. They regenerate as long as the soul stays bound to the body, or unless they are vaporized completely.


★ DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

★ 4 ASPECT SLOTS

  • You'll be granted extra aspect slots to meet the 4 minimum!
  • If you've already added a slot with a Universe Page you'll end up with 5 (or more) total slots.

★ 1 or more exclusive Revenant traits!

  • What counts: Any revenant-exclusive trait from the list below from the FREE or EXCLUSIVE section!
  • What doesn't count: Any common, uncommon, rare, mythic, or special traits from the free list, including those with a revenant variant

★ For each RITUAL OF THE DEAD item you can do ONE of the following:

  1. Pair with a MYO slot to make 1 new revenant design
  2. CONVERT an existing character into a revenant, meaning you add the subtype on alongside their existing subtypes and replace the old design. Applies to ONE existing form only.
  3. ADD a revemant ALT FORM to an existing character, this is an alt form that can be used in canon based on lore for your character (Ex: an undead form, while their existing form is a living form!). Other subtypes & traits don't pass to alt forms aside from mythic and certain special/legendary traits.

Use the navigation on the side to read more about creating a revenant, you only need to read the section relevant to what you're doing!

 

★ free TRAITS

★ Revenant FREE Traits

  • You can apply any traits from this list for free when first creating a revenant design. You can use as many as you want, they don't use up potions/trait slots!
  • Check the other sections to see how these apply when converting or editing a character!
  • You can add these to an existing Revenant with a Change Ticket.
  • Free traits can't be swapped for other traits!
  • You can still use all traits available to standard browbirds

  • TAIL THORNS
  • Death wound - A special injury on the design relating to how they died.
  • Tattered Ears - Ears can be shredded, full of holes, etc
  • Tattered Wings - HYBRID FEATURE. If you also have a winged subtype (astrean or hiros) this modifies astrean or hiros wings to be heavily tattered, full of holes, or with large amounts of feathers missing and falling out.
  • Bone Horns - Changes the horn texture to be dramatically ridged and segmented like a spine
  • Body Stitching - Stitches that keep parts of the body together and never heal

★ NOTE:

  • For TAIL HOLES and HORN HOLES revenants may have more than 3 and may have small weapons stuck in the horns/tail

★ EXCLUSIVE TRAITS

★ Revenant EXCLUSIVE Traits

  • When using the Ritual of the Dead you can apply +1 of these traits by default
  • This is in addition to the free traits list!
  • A Death Dagger can apply extra traits from this list!

(WIP LIST OF REV EXCLUSIVES)

NOTE: while they have some "gore" type traits, please keep in mind the site age rating and avoid heavy gore/guts/blood or detailed injury, especially if it's rendered in a realistic way with realistic colors. Keep some simplified and stylized/fantasy element to it

  • Exposed Bone - Exposed bone across various parts on the design, or replace a specific part with skeleton (ex: whole bone tail, skull head). Must be the same part as the one being replaced, cannot be a different creature's skeleton.
  • Unmending - Exposed muscle/insides that aren't bone
  • Impaled - Multiple weapons or other sharp objects are stuck in the character. dragger through the hand, axe in the head, nail through the eye, etc!
  • Bloodloss - Blood seeps from a single wound on the character such as the eyes, mouth, cracks or breaks in the horns, death wound, impalement, etc!
  • Feverfallen - Large amounts of missing fur, plague wounds, veins
  • Funeral Rites - Flora, dead or alive, lightly growing from a single wound area or around exposed bone
  • Soul Trap - Part of the revenant never returned when they were resurrected, or was destroyed. that spot is now made ghostly as the new soul tries to remember. Can appear as just translucency or semi-translucent lightly elemental effects in a similar color/texture to their crest (soul color). Must at least lightly glow OR have a glowing outline. Bone can be shown within if they have exposed bone, or other insides like a floating heart in their chest could show with unmending. This trait can replace ONE part entirely or have smaller holes across the design. Can connect sections together too such as only the upper part of a leg being ghostly.

The distinction between 'death wound' and the rev exclusive traits: a death wound could be a single weapon through their chest that killed them, with a small amount of blood coming from the wound vs. if you wanted multiple weapons with blood coming from multiple spots you'd need impaled + bloodloss. You are basically picking 1-2 'smaller versions' of rev traits to decide how the character perished.

★ HYBRID TRAITS

This section is a WIP!
  • If the character has multiple subtypes you can combine traits from both!
  • This section will be expanded as more subtypes are finalized. If you have a hybrid idea, feel free to ask!

★ DEATH WOUND

TBA - This is special to revenants!

★ CREATING A REVENANT MYO

★ THIS IS FOR:

  1. When you pair a Ritual of the Dead with a new MYO slot!
  2. Applying a Ritual of the Dead with a Reincarnation
  3. Using a Revenant MYO slot

★ FREE TRAITS

  • You can apply all free traits at no extra cost!
  • Free traits do not require items or use up your slot's/reincarnations trait rarities!

★ QUICK SUMMARY

  • 4 aspect slots, fill at least one when submitting
  • Add one or more Revenant traits
  • You can add as many free traits as you want
  • You get +1 exclusive trait for free, this is optional to use
  • Otherwise, create your character as normal! Check the MYO GUIDE for extra help.

★ CONVERTING TO REVENANT

★ THIS IS FOR:

  1. Applying a Ritual of the Dead to an existing design or existing alt form to convert it into a revenant.
  • The Revenant subtype can be applied even if the character already has a different subtype!
  • If the design already has multiple forms this only converts ONE form! You pick which one.

★ FREE TRAITS

  • You can apply all free traits at no extra cost!
  • If the design already has FREE traits before converting: you can swap these off for free into other traits at the time of conversion. If not swapped they will be changed to the free versions on the trait list and cannot be swapped anymore!
    • Note: traits added with an item(✦) cannot be swapped!

★ QUICK SUMMARY

  • 4 aspect slots, fill at least one when submitting. The character keeps all their existing aspects. Universe page slots don't count towards the 4!
  • Add one or more Revenant traits
  • You can add as many free traits as you want
  • You get +1 exclusive trait for free, this is optional to use

★ ADDING A REVENANT ALT FORM

★ THIS IS FOR:

  1. Applying a Ritual of the Dead to an existing design to add an alt form
  • ONE NEW FORM MAX PER UPDATE
  • This can only be done with existing characters, not on a new MYO or reincarnation
  • This process creates a SINGLE NEW ALT FORM of the character, separate from the existing forms.
  • Alt forms can exist for any purpose, both can be used in canon. It could be something a character shifts into, an illusion disguise, a past or future version of them, etc!

★ WHAT CARRIES OVER?

✅ Legendary and special traits optionally carry over as the exact same trait unless the trait itself says otherwise
✅ Mythic traits optionally carry over as the same trait, but you may edit them within the bounds of the trait - Ex: changing a mythic horn style. You can swap them using a change ticket if they were not applied with items.
✅ Mythic crests optionally carry over, they must stay within the same shape style. Effects can be the same rarity or lower rarity.
✅ Mythic and special aspects optionally carry over

❌ Anomalies and Augmented traits do not carry over!
❌ Any FREE subtype traits and any traits exclusive to a subtype do not carry over
❌ Uncommon and rare traits do not carry over
❌ Traits cannot be swapped across forms, they are locked to that form!

★ FREE TRAITS

  • You can apply all free traits at no extra cost!

★ DESIGN DIFFERENCES & EDITS

  • The alt form's colors and markings should resemble the original, but can be up to 30% different. You can use a dye kit on top of this for a maximum of 60% difference.
  • Alt forms are traited and edited entirely separately with separate items.
  • Mythic, special, and legendary traits added through items can optionally be applied to all forms!
  • Reincarnation is applied to all forms at once, you must update all forms OR request the forms you no longer want to be removed when reincarnated! You only need one copy of the item to cover all forms.

★ QUICK SUMMARY

  • 4 aspect slots, fill at least one when submitting. The character keeps all their existing aspects. Universe page slots don't count towards the 4!
  • Add one or more Revenant traits
  • You can add as many free traits as you want
  • You get +1 exclusive trait for free, this is optional to use
  • Only special, mythic, and legendary traits can optionally carry over
  • Forms are all edited separately, with separate items

★ EDITING A REVENANT

★ THIS IS FOR:

  1. Editing a Revenant's traits
  2. Removing the Revenant subtype

★ WHAT CARRIES OVER?

✅ Legendary and special traits optionally carry over as the exact same trait unless the trait itself says otherwise
✅ Mythic traits optionally carry over as the same trait, but you may edit them within the bounds of the trait - Ex: changing a mythic horn style. You can swap them using a change ticket if they were not applied with items.
✅ Mythic crests optionally carry over, they must stay within the same shape style. Effects can be the same rarity or lower rarity.

❌ Anomalies and Augmented traits do not carry over!
❌ Any FREE subtype traits and any traits exclusive to a subtype do not carry over
❌ Uncommon and rare traits do not carry over
❌ Traits cannot be swapped across forms, they are locked to that form!

★ FREE TRAITS

  • You can remove free traits for free
  • To add extra free traits please use a change ticket
  • Free traits cannot be swapped!

★ OTHER EDITS

  • GENERAL EDIT GUIDE
  • You can change any trait's coverage, size, and style for free
  • If a mythic, special, or legendary trait is added you can optionally apply it to all forms in separate updates.
  • Traits can't be swapped across forms otherwise, each form is separate!
  • CHANGE TICKET:
    • Swap exclusive traits to other exclusive traits if not added with an item
    • Swap the placement of additional 'addon' traits. This excludes head traits and marking traits.

★ HOW TO REMOVE THE SUBTYPE

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