Changes: Revenant

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Revenants are powerful desire or pride demons inhabiting the corpses of the fallen^[1], and as such, share the same strengths and weaknesses as creatures like devouring corpses, and fanged skeletons.

Involvement

Dragon Age: Origins

Eleven revenants can be found during the campaign, as a part of four separate quests:

The Black Vials: Six boss-level revenants are trapped in glass phylacteries:
- Caridin's Cross, Denerim, Circle Tower, Orzammar Royal Palace, the Lower Ruins, and the Werewolf Lair.
The Mage's Treasure: Three boss-level revenants in the Brecilian Forest, one in the west and two in the east. These are summoned by triggering gravestones.
Arl of Redcliffe: A lieutenant-level revenant is found in the Redcliffe Castle courtyard when The Warden breaks in to investigate.
Unbound: Elite Boss Gaxkang the Unbound, who is found in Quaint Hovel (Dirty Back Alley in Denerim), switches between two forms: a revenant and an arcane horror.

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening

It is possible to encounter revenants in the Blackmarsh after escaping the Fade. The various Fade Portals spawn various undead and demonic enemies, including revenants, though at this point in the game they are only Elite level and far easier to dispatch of than their boss-level, Origins counterparts.

The Golems of Amgarrak

Several Warped Watcher revenants are trapped in-between the Veil in the Amgarrak Thaig. One of these is Boss rank while the others are Elites. These are only encountered during The Golems of Amgarrak DLC.

Dragon Age II

Miscellaneous revenants can be found during the game, including:

One on Sundermount during Act 1
One beneath Harimann Estate, during Repentance
In Act 3, especially during The Last Straw, revenants can be encountered during almost every battle involving the undead.
If Aveline is in the party during the Mark of the Assassin, several phylactery-bound revenants can be unleashed inside Chateau Haine during her personal quest.

Skills

Revenants have five different skills, and like party members, have conditions for their Combat Tactics:

Skill Used	Condition	Use Chance
Aura of Weakness	Any	100%
Double Strike	Surrounded by at least 2 enemies	50%
	Surrounded by at least 3 enemies	75%
	Surrounded by at least 4 enemies	100%
Mass Pull	Most enemies using ranged attacks	100%
	Most enemies using magic	100%
	Combat start	100%
Pull	Short–medium range	100%
Pull	Medium–long range	100%
Shield Wall	Mana or Stamina ≤50%	50%

Other statistics

Revenants have the following characteristics:

High Armor, Health, and Regeneration.
Immunity to Stunning and knockdowns.
Immunity to Cold and Nature damage, although they can be frozen.
Immunity to +X damage vs. undead effects (Cold Iron runes, Topsider's Honor).
Vulnerability to Fire damage; normal reaction to Spirit, Lightning, and (despite the Codex text) Physical damage.
Highly resistant or immune to flanking and backstabbing.
Good Defense but comparatively low attack rating.

Some of their basic strategies involve:

Pulling or Mass Pulling ranged attackers and healers.
Damaging multiple opponents in melee.
Killing weaker party members in one blow (spiking).
Wearing down the party with their allies (skeletons or lesser darkspawn).

Strategy

Main article: Revenant (strategy)

Gallery

References

↑ Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 1, p. 181

[1] Dragon Age: The World of Thedas, vol. 1, p. 181

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+Dark Revenant (HoDA).png|A dark revenant in ''Heroes of Dragon Age''
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