Revenant

Revenants were undead creatures that would rise from the dead to hunt down and slay their killers with an unwavering zeal.

Physical Characteristics
Appearing as a decayed and emaciated versions of their once living selves, revenants typically had open festering wounds and drawn, clammy skin cover their flesh. Ordinarily revenants had lifeless eyes but when face with their murderers their eyes would flare with an unnatural light.

A revenant possessed greater physical strength and a stronger force of personality than they did in life. Along with the usual differences between the undead and the living, revenants were also impervious to the effects of acid, gases, cold, electricity and polymorphing. Accompanied with their resistance to non-magical weapons, this all made revenants particularly tough physically.

Abilities
Revenants were single-minded in the pursuit of their killers and although they had a number of resistances and abilities they were especially potent against their murderers. In addition, they still retained all the powers, experience and special qualities they once had in life.
 * Fast Healing A Revenant can quickly recover from most damage done to it thanks to its accelerated healing abilities. Only damage dealt by fire is exempt from this healing factor.
 * Find the Guilty Each revenant rose with an unerring sense of which direction their murderer is located. This capability was restricted to locating creatures on the same plane of existence as a revenant.
 * Paralysing Glare Upon their first encounter with their killer, the revenants eyes blaze with an unnatural light and causes the murderer to be paralysed on the spot if they are not strong willed enough to resist.
 * Vengeful Strike When facing their killers in combat, the revenant attacks were especially potent and dealt even more damage than normal.

Psychology
Revenants had an unrelenting desire for revenge against their killers, almost to the point of ignoring anyone else who was not involved in their murder. This desire for vengeance sometimes spread to accomplices involved in the murder, but this tended to be less important than their primary target.

Society
Although revenants typically had no society or shared purpose, gnomes seemed to especially likely to be hunted by revenants.

History
On Marpenoth 2 1372 DR, Irae T'sarran began research on her great revenance spell that could potentially raise an revenant army of thousands under her control.

Appearances

 * City of the Spider Queen