Revenant

Revenant

An undead sorcerer raised by a powerful necromancer, or created in a failed Lichdom ritual. Revenants retain the knowledge, memories and powers they had in life, but lack the resilience and restorative abilities natural to a lich. Whereas a lich’s soul is contained in a phylactery, a revenant’s soul is contained in their physical body. Lacking the power of a phylactery to maintain them in death, they must constantly consume the life-force of others to restore their decaying mind and body.

Despite being immortal and having no hard limit on how powerful they can become, revenants tend to be desperate, depraved creatures. Their rapidly degenerating mental state leads them to a squalid existence on the edges of society, feeding mostly off vermin and the odd unfortunate explorer.

The most notable exception to this is Aldrich Echter, a 5th era sorcerer who was slain and raised as a revenant by Acculta Magnus during the sacking of Port Archer.