Kevin's Watch

C'mon - honestly, lets be 'avin it. Without nipping of to the dictionary for a sly peek to check if your right or not, do you, or do you not know wtf SRD was talking about when he named his second [third?] book in The Last Chrons Fatal Revenant.

"Ghost". Pretty much.

Something which 'returns', especially a ghost. But I have to admit - I hadn't any real idea untill I looked it up.

I had to look it up (and you don't have a category for that in your poll). I'm sure I've seen it again since, but can't remember where. That happens. Once you've become aware of something it turns up all over the place!

It's a word you do come across now and then. Mostly, as was said, in fantasy and horror fiction. And probably the more poetically-written sort at that.

Easy peasy for anyone who knows French (or Latin for that matter), courtesy of venir (Fr) or venire (Lat)... that which/he who reappears (lit. comes again).

As several have said, most often used to describe the undead.

I know it both from French and from coming across the word before, although I'm not sure where I first heard it.

I'm fairly certain I never came across the word, but I knew what it meant. Also, I am one of those who knows (some) French, so that probably helped.

TheFallen wrote:Easy peasy for anyone who knows French (or Latin for that matter), courtesy of venir (Fr) or venire (Lat)... that which/he who reappears (lit. comes again).

As several have said, most often used to describe the undead.

They didn't do Latin at my secondary modern, and apparently in my French aural CSE exam when asked where I was going on holiday I replied "yes thank you" (in French). I know some Latin now though - filia, filius, predicti, peregrinus, vidua, relict etc. et. (I may have got some of the Latin spellings wrong as the stuff I get is very abbreviated and in secretary hand).

Pretty sure I had to look it up.

Hashi Lebwohl wrote:There was a variety of undead creature in AD&D called a revenant. They were similar to ghosts but less powerful and pretty rare.

That may be where I first heard it. I played occasionally in my late teens for a few years.

michaelm wrote:

Hashi Lebwohl wrote:There was a variety of undead creature in AD&D called a revenant. They were similar to ghosts but less powerful and pretty rare.

That may be where I first heard it. I played occasionally in my late teens for a few years.

DnD is possibly where I first heard it, too...it's been a long time.
Later on, dnd wise, it ended up being fairly common in Forgotten Realms,
and was added as a playable character race in supplements to 4th edition.

I had a vague idea, then I looked it up.

When Deathly Hallows came out, I suggested that the name might mean the the same thing as Fatal Revenant.

This foreigner knew what the word meant since teenage days. I didn't know it was not a commonly known word.

Hashi Lebwohl wrote:There was a variety of undead creature in AD&D called a revenant. They were similar to ghosts but less powerful and pretty rare.

I believe that was the first time I had encountered the word, but in junior high.

Thanks to the context in the WGW chapter "The Sun-Sage", where Linden is looking down at Covenant's body rather than at the power-filled revenantof TC above her, I knew what the word meant. But if it hadn't been for that, I would have had to look it up.

Also: I Am Revenant