Gjenganger

Subspecies: Monument of Witches

Primary: Grayscale

Secondary: White

Tertiary: White

Breed: Pearlcatcher

Guard

Ability Stone

A defensive maneuver that gives the caster a chance to come to the defense of one ally for five turns, taking damage in their stead.

300

Required Level: 3

Witch Monuments are set upon the graves of highly skilled magicians who saved many by creating new spells when they were needed the most. The monument placed upon their grave inherit the strong soul and continues to guard their society from dangers, using the spess she invented while living.



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A Gjenganger s the term for a revenant, the spirit or ghost of a deceased from the grave, in Scandinavian folklore.
A gjenganger could have several reasons to return from the afterlife. Murdered people could seldom sleep peacefully in their graves. The same went for their murderers. People who had committed suicide often came back as gjengangere, because Christian tradition held that "self-killers" were fit neither for heaven nor hell. At other times, people came back from the grave because they had left something undone. Most often they needed someone to help them do this, before they could finally be at peace.
The biggest difference between modern ghosts and the gjenganger is that the gjenganger in the Scandinavian tradition took on an entirely corporeal form. It normally had no spectre-like qualities whatsoever. In older traditions the gjenganger was also very malicious and violent in nature, coming back from the grave to torment its family and friends. In the way they acted, and in the extensive precautions their relatives took to make sure they stayed in their graves, gjengangere are more akin to eastern-European vampires than modern-day ghosts.
This tradition of the violent gjenganger goes back to the Viking age, where they are present in many of the Icelandic sagas, among others: Grettis saga, Eyrbyggja saga and The Saga of Eric the Red. In this tradition, the gjenganger was a mortal creature. An example of this is Grettir slaying the gjenganger Glámr with his sword. These Viking-age gjengangere were often called draugr, and the two are likely to be different names for the same phenomenon.