The revenants
"A few honest men are better than numbers." (Oliver Cromwell)
| The revenants | |
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| Abbreviation: | REVs |
| Group Numbers: | 6 |
| Leadership: | Council |
| Goals: | Justice |
| Recruitment Policy: | Open to those that follow the Code |
| Contact: | TBA |
A pro survivor group dedicated to the idea of Justice.
JUST AS YOU SOW, SO SHALL YOU REAP. Very different than the idea of bounty hunting or vendettas, the REVs seek to get to the core of the evolved game. If the following interests you, please leave a comment on the discussion tab up top. The group offers the following in game terms as an outline:
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Outlook toward others:
Other revenants- The revenants help each other and try to learn to "Walk The Code". (more on the The Code coming)
New Survivors- "Innocents" to be helped and developed.
Survivor Groups- To be supported and helped in the rebuild.
Zombie Groups-respected as apex predators and worthy opponents.
PKers-respected as legitimate to the game but viewed as what they are by what they do...As individual rogues then they are murderers, when they are organized groups then they are organized crime and occasionally at high levels of game play they are assassins, gunslingers or ronins with their own set of legitimate values.
The REVs
Priority Revives
[[ http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=1174786%7C Karl Garvey ]]
Historical Precedent in Folklore
A revenant is a visible ghost or animated corpse that was believed to return from the grave to terrorize the living. The word "revenant" is derived from the Latin word, revenit, "to return"; in French, "revenant" means "returning". Vivid images of revenants emerged in Western Europe (especially Great Britain, and later carried by Anglo-Norman invaders to Ireland) during the High Middle Ages. Later legend and folklore depicts revenants as returning for a specific purpose (e.g., revenge against the deceased's killer).-Wikipedia
Based on the theory that in a city where death is a condition that changes, murder victims would rise to be "revenants"- as in the old European and American legends, ghosts who come back from beyond the grave not just to settle scores but ultimately serve justice. Examples would be The Crow, the Hurry Sundown character in the Outlaws' song of the same name and even the famed Ghost Rider. It is a long tradition and would seem a natural for UD.
Revenants are characters who want Justice. Think of the characters in the "spagetti" Westerns like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly or The Magnificent Seven (or the Seven Samurai). They want Justice on their own terms. They will deal with some shady characters but always following their own code of justice that demands that others be treated the way that each deserves. Just as they sow shall they reap, and even death will not stop the revenant from serving justice. Warren Zevon's Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner is an undead mercenary who having been betrayed now stalks all betrayers even though dead from having his head blown off by gunfire:
Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in
He found him in Mombassa, in a barroom drinking gin
Roland aimed his Thompson gun, he didn't say a word
But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg
The eternal Thompson gunner, Still wand'ring through the night
Now it's ten years later, but he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
Patty Hearst, heard the burst, Of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it
High Plains Drifter may be the ultimate Revenant story.
The point is that you can make an argument for characters who wish to return to the living and to settle "unfinished business". While some would revel in their undead powers and become monsters (the Dual Life position), clearly some would fight that instinct even to the point of fighting other monsters while in the undead state(called ZKing or Life Cultist in the game). The tortured souls who fight against the monster instinct are numerous in fiction and legend.
The experience of being killed would leave these characters with a sense of "lawfulness outside the law" and a code of conduct to help them make sense of the chaos.
Just as you sow, so shall you reap.
More to follow. --Belisarius17 02:06, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
