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  1. Revenant
  2. These are the things that go bump in the night. A congelation of darkness most
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  4. foul. Otherwise known as demons, yokai, or ghosts. They are immortal and can olny be
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  6. destroyed by calcification, the preservation and purifcation into a work of art such as a
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  8. statue, painting, opera, what have you. Their influence on the living world is corrosive
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  10. and poisonous. Large concentrations of revenant explode in events known as a Reckoning.
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  12. Very large scale disasters, the black plague, dustbowl, krakatoa, pompeii, and Los
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  14. Angeles Earth Quake.
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  16. Lacrimarium
  17. General talismin of warding off the forces of darkness. The tears of a mourner
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  19. fill the glass vessel, taking in curses and hexes and dispursing them over time, however
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  21. a strong enough will can overfill it and break the vessel
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  23. Absolution Round
  24. A bullet forged from lead and a substance of purity, be it ashes, salt, hair, or
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  26. humor. Lesser beings of darkness may be calcified by it, but typically not for very long,
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  28. or is easily undone
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  30. Crypt Knocker
  31. A special kind of absolution round forged by incasing a shard of bone from a
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  33. canonised saint inside a pellet of Iron taken from a nail in a church, coffin, or
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  35. crucifix. One of the few things that can invoke the true death of a revenant
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  37. The Heart of Bernadette
  38. The dessicated heart of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, bound within a silver cage
  39.  
  40. and chain, serves as a sort of lock for calcified revenants, nearby ones which cannot
  41.  
  42. become reanimated
  43.  
  44. The Lesser and Greater Keys of Solomon
  45. Two tomes fairly popular in the crusades for the calcification of witches,
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  47. however things got messy around that time peroid and a great number of demons were
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  49. incorrectly bound, and instead escaped into water, smoke, piles of rocks, or in some
  50.  
  51. cases a particularly unhappy dog. Regardless, it is still valued as a demon fighting
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  53. tool, a few copies still circulate in the form of pocket-sized spellbooks.
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  55. Exorsisim
  56. A long and very strenuous process of forciably driving a revenant from one
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  58. posessed vessel and into another suitable object or vessel. Typically it is used on human
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  60. vessels to prevent the death of the host
  61.  
  62. Divination Magic
  63. There are two subsets of this branch of white magic, divination (predicting the
  64.  
  65. future) and Dousing. Both subtypes can also reveal the unseen and augment activation
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  67. magic.
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  69. Activation Magic
  70. Magical sigils, circles, old stonework, symbols of power or otherwise
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  72. supersitious signifigance can be 'activated" by a user of this gift. It can bind
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  74. revenant, prevent the entry, calcify a statue to its core, small tricks of slight of
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  76. hand. And most usefully amplifies the power of Crypt Knockers if one can get close
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  78. enough.
  79.  
  80. Miracle Magic
  81. The magic of preists and clerics. Concecration, Healing, Purification, and the
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  83. canonisation of appratuses to combat Revenants specifically.
  84.  
  85. Flame of Exsistance
  86. Pure energy of creation, is what allows revenant to become revived even after
  87.  
  88. milennia. Most mortals olny have but a small ember of the flame but a few known as
  89.  
  90. firekeepers harbor flames greater then archdemons. Darkened unnatural flames as in
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  92. revenants can combine together if there are enough, igniting nearby objects into
  93.  
  94. horriably twisted forms, or causing a reckoning as the laws of nature lash back against
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  96. that force. Indivisual flames are also known as souls.
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  98. Bone Fire
  99. A location where a large concentration of flames have burned, and more
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  101. importantly the dedication of a firekeeper soul. A firekeeper soul has the capacity to
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  103. fire exactly one location, in the event that a soul does not do this, the place where the
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  105. firekeeper died will serve as a bone fire.
  106.  
  107. Spark of Flame (OW)
  108. A romantic name for a very specific and very difficult kind of magic to perform.
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  110. It requires the altering of the perception of reality by those involved. Fear, alcohol,
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  112. drugs, humidity, smoke are all common methods of setting the stage. The caster must be an
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  114. activation mage and can olny do this once every month. Summoning a spark of flame takes
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  116. the form of a series of complex symbols floating in midair which can be seen by
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  118. everybody, not just divinators. These circles can be used for a number of very potent
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  120. uses, but have the drastic side effect of drawing many revenants together, and alerting
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  122. them to ones position. A spark of the great flame can olny be performed on a bone fire,
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  124. with an actual fire. The more congegants there are, the more energy can be drawn upon.
  125.  
  126. The most dire and terriable act that can be performed here is known as "The Consuption"
  127.  
  128. whereupon a Memento is burned and all of its power released at once in a unique event
  129.  
  130. called "Contact".
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  132. Nail of the Crucifix (OW)
  133. The nail that peirced jesus's left hand, when carried as a charm it makes the
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  135. supplicant immune to posession. The nail itself is toxic to all revenant and untempered
  136.  
  137. contact with it will cause the creature to dispurse itself and reappear 216 feet away.
  138.  
  139. Roasry of Mother Thersea (M)
  140. This string of beads will cause an aura of tranquility and peace near the
  141.  
  142. supplicant. Revenant are not immune to its effect, and all creatures within its radius
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  144. will not be killed, however wounds inflicted will not heal and unconiousness can still
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  146. result.
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