Human Revenant A

I created both of the human revenant classes of enemies in Defiance Remastered, including the similar corpse that Raziel uses to emerge into the Material Realm. This first class, in the files labeled Revenant A, is the freshest of these undead zombie-type enemies. Unlike the others that are very much dried out husks, these guys have been dead somewhere in the 30-100 year range. The big enemy race in the game, the Hylden, possess corpses to enter the physical realm and attack Raziel. Their signature being their glowing green eyes and green souls when Raziel rips them from these undead bodies.

The original revenant looked like it was clothed similarly to the skinnier male vampire hunters in the game, with bound hard and soft leather pieces over top one another. In an effort to distance them from that class, as whoever these were in life, they should have been roaming around before these current crop of vampire hunters, I added plate and chainmail armor over top of cloth instead. The effigies on the tombs around are of knights and nobles, so it would stand to reason that these warriors in life were soldiers in some cause where that type of armor made sense. However, the pieces still roughly clothe them the way the original model’s did and the metal has worn and rusted to the point they still have a similar brown color pallet over their pale, decaying flesh. Pieces have actually rusted away and broken off, so one arm has more of an arm harness left than the other. The original model has hair cards that were oddly placed to where they almost looked like a crown of feathers on the back of their heads, but it really is hair in the texture. So, I added the remnants of hair strands to these guys in a more natural way.

These guys are as close to a Night of the Living Dead in Nosgoth as it gets, and they get their own introduction in a cutscene, so I definitely want to up the creep and realism factor as much as could be.