Thread:Perchan/@comment-24759334-20160201163655

Hey Per. I just wanted to ask if I can bring some things to the wiki. For the first item, do you remember the R-System/Tower of Heaven? Well, in that arc, the Magic Council mentioned that, not including ToH, there were 7 R-systems under construction by Zeref Cultists, all of which were destroyed by the Magic Council long before the series start. Originally I was just going to ask to be able to use one of the R-Systems, but now I thought that I should make a page of them, allowing users to take one of the 7 R-systems for use in their own Fanon. Is this ok with you?



Also, I wanted to get your permission on a revised lost magic: Revenant Magic. If you somehow remember a conversation from a few years ago, this was the first magic I wanted to make, back when I first joined the wiki (and when I did make it, it was of such low quality I think Zico actively wanted to murder me…). I deleted the page some time ago, but I wanted to get your opinion on the magic if I made it again, since it has been edited.

A Revenant is an undead being that can be created when a living mage is killed by death magic, yet refuses to pass on to the next life, staying alive through pure force of will. If the victim is somehow strong enough or has enough drive to complete a goal, a few hours after brain death, when the soul has left the body, the victim’s magic origin will start pulling in the residual of the death spell, becoming a magic vacuum, using it as a source of power to restart the body’s organs and repair the damage it sustained. If the process is successful, the victim can come back to life, their body having changed in a number of ways to sustain itself in death. For a start, the user no longer has a soul, but still has a functioning brain, meaning they can function as well as any human (except they cannot be seen by soul seeing magics). They now however have no running blood, do not breathe, no longer need sleep, do not age, and no longer require food. They can even lose limbs or even their head and not die. Instead, everything is powered by drained magic. To this end, wounds heal faster, they can move quicker and put more strain on their body, and can only truly by killed by brain death. All as long as they have magic to sustain themselves. This is also their weakness. As they need magic to sustain their body, they must constantly drain it to keep themselves alive. They must often drain lacrima as an upkeep, as they use up magical energy faster than they can drain it from the atmosphere. They can last about a week without magic before body decay starts up, and two weeks before re-death. (It is also worth noting that most Revenants cannot drain magic from humans, not without direct contact with their magic origin. Older and stronger revenants have found ways to though) To this end, while they can use normal magics, it is extremely risky, like using one’s own blood as a power source. Instead, they use a special selection of spells called Revenancy magic, which uses the residue death magic and only a fraction of the magic they drain. This magic allows them to use shadows like portals, fire beams of death energy, poison the air around them, summon blackened stone structures etc.

But perhaps the biggest weakness of a Revenant is the fact they are kept alive only by their will to live. Revenants are not common, but almost all come back to life for the purpose of completing a goal. But it’s less of a dream and more of a drive, something they always work too. Revenants that fail in their goals and do not find another or do not have goals quickly degrade, even with magic sustaining them. Revenants that do complete their goal either die happy, or find another goal to work towards. Note that you can’t game the system, this must be a genuine wish to see this goal fulfilled. Also, even if you fail, you can still live if you find another goal (eg. Comes back to life to protect family, stays alive to find families killers). Interestingly, it all appears to be in their head. Even if they are working against the goal, so long as they think they are working towards it, they will live.

Also, forgot to note, damage to the brain will also kill them. This is because the brain is so complex the body almost always drains itself of magic before it manages to repair the brain.

So what do you think?  