REVENANT: The Power Past Death
Revenant is a supernatural power system that activates when an individual undergoes a traumatic, near-death, or actual death experience. If their will, convictions, and identity are strong enough, they transcend the boundary of death and awaken as a Revenant User—a being who embodies their trauma and ideals through a unique Innate Technique.
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Awakening Conditions
To become a Revenant User, three conditions must be met:
1. Threshold Event: A moment of extreme trauma, near-death, or the loss of one's own life.
2. Unyielding Will: The person must possess a powerful conviction or purpose that refuses to die.
3. Identity Alignment: Their sense of self must be strong enough to manifest a technique that reflects who they truly are.
If these align, the person is "reborn" as a Revenant User—no longer bound by the normal laws of mortality.
Revenant is the main power that connects to the others. Such as Mania, Agony, and even Repaired Will.
The moment someone becomes a revenant user, they cannot be killed by any man-made object. Only the revenant of another user can kill a revenant user.
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Innate Techniques
Each Revenant User gains an Innate Technique, a supernatural ability that:
• Reflects their trauma or death (e.g., someone who drowned might control water or suffocation).
• Embodies their conviction (e.g., someone who died protecting others might gain shielding or sacrificial powers).
• Is unique to them, often evolving with their emotional state or personal growth.
・Passed down from a connection to a revenant user from the Heian period—giving them a greater connection to revenant as a whole. These techniques are not learned—they are manifested.
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1. Revenant Core
• A metaphysical "core" formed later or during the awakening process of revenant.
• Stores the user's trauma, conviction, and essence.
• Can be damaged or corrupted if the user loses their way.
2. Echo State
• Revenants can enter an Echo State, a heightened form where they relive their trauma to amplify their power.
• Dangerous: prolonged use can cause mental instability or loss of identity.
3. Revenant Marks
• Physical or metaphysical marks appear on the body (tattoos, scars, glowing sigils).
• These marks evolve as the user grows stronger or experiences new trauma.
4. Revenant Binding
• Revenants can form Bindings with others who share similar convictions.
• These allow for shared techniques, fusion abilities, or emotional resonance boosts.
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Types of Revenant users:
• Protectors: Defensive or sacrificial techniques
• Wraths: Destructive, chaotic powers.
• Remorseful:Time, memory, or reversal abilities.
• Void: Abstract, reality-bending techniques.
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• Revenant Hunters: Organizations that fear or exploit Revenant users for their selfish reasonings.
• False Revenants: Those who mimic the power without true transcendence.
• Purging Collapse: A phenomenon where a Revenant loses their conviction and becomes a mindless force of destruction.
• Revenant Ascension: A rare evolution where a Revenant becomes a mythic entity tied to death itself
AGONY: The Incomplete Redemption
AGONY is a fractured, unstable power that mimics the effects of REPAIRED WILL, a mythical source of true healing. While Repaired Will offers permanent restoration of body, mind, and soul, AGONY is a temporary patchwork, born from unresolved suffering and the desperate desire to feel whole—even if only for a moment.
AGONY is not a cure—it is a cry for help in the torrent of suffering people find themselves in.
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Origin: REPAIRED WILL
• Repaired Will is the original, complete power that heals trauma at its root.
• It is accessed only by those who have faced their pain, understood it, and grown beyond it.
• Users of Repaired Will are rare and revered, often seen as living miracles.
• Their techniques are gentle, radiant, and enduring, capable of healing others as well as themselves.
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AGONY Awakening Conditions:
1. A person experiences deep trauma or emotional devastation.
2. They attempt to heal, but cannot fully confront or accept their pain.
3. Their will is cracked, not rebuilt—creating a temporary surge of healing and strength.
AGONY is the body and soul forcing itself to function, even when the foundation is broken.
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1. Agony Bloom
• A sudden burst of healing and power, often triggered by emotional overload.
• Physical wounds close, mental clarity returns—but only for a short time.
• After the bloom fades, the user experiences rebound pain, emotional numbness, or even regression.
2. Fractured Will Core
• A broken shard of the Repaired Will Core.
• Emits unstable healing energy that fluctuates with the user's emotional state.
• Can cause phantom sensations, emotional bleed, or false memories of peace.
3. Agony Techniques
• Techniques mimic Repaired Will abilities but degrade over time.
• Healing becomes less effective, clarity fades, and power destabilizes.
• Some users develop rituals or anchors to prolong the effect, but these are unreliable.
4. Agony Feedback
• The more a user relies on Agony, the more unstable they become.
• Prolonged use can lead to Agony Collapse, where the user becomes a vessel of pain, unable to distinguish reality from trauma.
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Types of AGONY Users
• Scarred Healers: Those who tried to save others but couldn't save themselves. Their techniques are protective but at the cost of losing their lifeforce.
• Denial-Bound: Those who refuse to acknowledge their pain. Their powers are radiant but carry no meaning, nor conviction.
• Grief-Forgers: Those who lost someone and tried to fill the void in their heart. Their techniques mimic connections with that person, but drain them dry of those precious emotions they once had, leaving just a shell of what used to be.
• Self-Menders: Those who tried to fix themselves without understanding their wounds. Their powers are introspective but unstable.
• False Saints: Those who believe they are healed but are still broken. Their techniques are deceptive, even to themselves. Leading them down a path of self destruction, tearing away all they have.
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• Agony Shrines: Places where users go to trigger their bloom, often tied to personal memories.
• Repaired Will Guardians: Individuals who guide Agony users toward true healing.
• Agony Cults: Groups that worship pain as a source of power, rejecting the idea of permanent healing.
• The Broken Path: A journey some users take to evolve from Agony to Repaired Will—requiring them to relive and accept every trauma.
MANIA: The Power of Unraveled Minds
MANIA is a volatile power system born not from conviction, but from emotional collapse, mental instability, and uncontrolled trauma. Where REVENANT users transcend death through clarity of purpose, MANIA users lose themselves to their pain, becoming vessels of raw, unstable power.
They do not awaken through will—they erupt through the cracks.
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Awakening Conditions
To become a Mania User, the following must occur:
1. Psychic Fracture: A moment of complete emotional or psychological collapse (e.g., betrayal, loss, existential dread).
2. Identity Shatter: The user's sense of self breaks, allowing chaotic energy to flood in.
3. Unfiltered Emotion: The user becomes a conduit for pure, unrestrained emotion—rage, sorrow, ecstasy, fear.
Unlike Revenants, Mania Users do not control their power—it controls them. Manipulates them to do things that would be considered vile, disgusting, or even the complete opposite of their convictions and goals.
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Manic Manifestation
Each Mania User gains a Manic Manifestation, a power that:
• Embodies their emotional breakdown (e.g., someone who lost their friends might command the dead in a frantic and inhumane manner.)
• Is unstable and unpredictable, often changing form or effect based on mood swings.
• Can mutate over time, especially if the user continues to spiral mentally.
These powers are wild, often stronger than Revenant techniques but far less reliable.
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1. Fracture Core
• A shattered version of the Revenant Core.
• Constantly leaks unstable energy.
• Can cause environmental distortions, hallucinations, or emotional contagion.
2. Frenzy State
• Mania Users enter Frenzy States, periods of uncontrollable power surges.
• During Frenzy, they may lose all rational thought and become destructive forces.
• Some users can learn to "ride the wave" and weaponize their instability.
3. Emotional Catalysts
• Mania powers are triggered or amplified by emotional spikes.
• Catalysts include memories, triggers, or interactions with others.
• Some users carry "anchors" (objects or people) to stabilize themselves—though this rarely works for long.
4. Mutation
• Mania powers can mutate based on new traumas or emotional shifts.
• This makes them highly adaptive but also dangerous to allies and enemies alike.
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Types of Mania Users
• Rageborn: Fueled by fury. Explosive, destructive powers.
• Griefbound: Fueled by sorrow. Necrotic, draining, or illusion-based powers.
• Ecstatic: Fueled by manic joy. Unpredictable, dangerous, harmful abilities.
• Fearmarked: Fueled by terror. Stealth, paralysis, or nightmare-based powers.
• Voidtouched: Fueled by apathy or existential despair. Anti-energy, nullification, or entropy powers.
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• Mania Suppressors: Devices or rituals used to contain Mania outbreaks.
• Mania Cults: Groups that worship emotional collapse as divine truth.
• Dual-Wielders: Rare individuals who awaken both REVENANT and MANIA, constantly torn between control and chaos.