Name: Waverly Earp Date: 8/4/20 Statement: Before we start, there is ... so much more, but this is a lot of writing, so if you want more, I'll probably drop more in later down the line!
GHOST RIVER TRIANGLE:
So where the Ghost River splits into two legs and then rejoins at the bottom forms the Ghost River Triangle. It starts in Baniff Natural Park, near Alberta, Canada down to Flathead National Forest in Montana. As far back as we can track it, it’s always been a hotbed for supernatural activity. The interesting thing about the Triangle, however, is that not only does it keep certain supernatural creatures in, it also keeps other things out. It acts as both a barrier and a shield at the same time. For a long time we weren’t really sure why, but it turns out that the Ghost River Triangle happens to be protection Paradise, aka the Garden aka That Garden, with the snake and the tree, etc.
The main bad guys in the Triangle are the Revenants (more on that later) but since the barrier between the Triangle and the rest of the world went down we’ve gotten everything from soul eating demons to gnomes to vampires. The world is our proverbial supernatural oyster.
THE GARDEN
We don’t know much about the Garden yet. It’s kind of a new development, so I’m just gonna put a pin in that for now. Also we’re well aware that it doesn’t make sense that the Garden of Eden is in the frozen North of Canada but I have theories about that, if you ever want to hear them!
What we do know is this: the Garden was originally placed in the hands of two angels, Juan Carlo and Julian. Juan Carlo vacated his post first, when Bulshar Clootie first became a big problem in the late 1800s, and Julian closer to the 1990s. The steps to the Garden can only be seen by angels, mortals who are virtuous enough or by champions designated by the angels in question.
THE EARP CURSE
Over time, a small town called Purgatory popped up. It was one of those Western resettlement homestead towns, nothing special but drew the usual collection of saloons and settlers, bad guys and good guys for a rootin’ tootin’ western adventure. A demon named Bulshar Clootie, who also happened to be the aforementioned snake, set up shop in the Ghost River Triangle with his creepy spider sisterwives and a powerful witch known as the Stone Witch, to try and find the Garden so that he could break his way back in.
He didn’t find it. It took him a while.
Eventually he named himself sheriff, but he wasn’t really doing much sheriffing. Crime was running rampant, as it tended to do in these settlement towns. Sometime in the late 1800s, the famous lawman Wyatt Earp arrived in Purgatory with his posse to try and track down some bad guys, as he do. Juan Carlo, one of the angels of the Garden, deemed that he was worthy and gave him a flaming sword disguised as a Colt Buntline Special called Peacemaker. Wyatt set off writing the wrongs of the Ghost River Triangle, trying to set justice in his own way, but on the way, he murdered Bulshar’s sons.
Thus, Bulshar created a curse.
Every time the oldest Heir of Wyatt Earp turned twenty-seven, the seventy-seven people Wyatt killed with Peacemaker would resurrect as Revenants that only Peacemaker could put down. The Heir would be tasked with sending the Revenants back to Hell until all seventy-seven are gone or they die.
(Most of them died.)
The curse is now defunct, thanks to the efforts of the latest Heir, but it’s unclear what the ramifications from that will be in the long term – it’s a new development.
REVENANTS
Okay, so. Revenants. I don’t know the names of all of them, though God knows I’ve tried, but in what I’ve learned over the years, there is no one-size-fits-all Revenant. There are certain standard behaviors, which are as follows:
They can’t be “killed” (sent back to Hell) by anything but Peacemaker. Their bodies can take a lot of gratuitous harm, even be decapitated, but they will regenerate eventually.
They cannot leave the Ghost River Triangle – if they do, they will basically burn alive in perpetuity. It’s really gross.
Revenants can be distinguished by their mark. Red eyes, and a glowing scar that usually appears in the presence of weapons like Peacemaker, or when the Revenant themselves invoke them.
It’s after that where things get a little messy.
As far as we can tell, they all have a power of some kind, and that power is unique to the Revenant themselves. Some are hyper specific to them and their personality, ie. Killer Miller could turn out the sun and blend into shadows, an exaggeration of his abilities as an assassin. Others were related to their deaths: August Hamilton was drowned and his body was chained to the bottom of a lake that he couldn’t leave, even as a Revenant, and he was able to move through town through reflective surfaces.
And then some of them were just random. Bobo Del Ray could move metal objects with his mind. We don’t really know why.
It also isn’t entirely true that all of these people were terrible people. The terms of the curse was not “every bad guy Wyatt ever dealt with becomes a Revenant” – it was every person Wyatt shot. This means that not all of these Revenants were bad people or deserved to die at Wyatt Earp’s hand. However, that doesn’t change the fact that they did, and while some of the Revenants continued to be good people, the same is not true for all of them.
Basically, even subjected to Hell, Revenants are still people and making the Heir hunt them all the time was kind of sucky.
With the curse being lifted, it’s unclear where the Revenants stand, or even if they still exist, but who knows? Since we’re in Hell, some of them might show up here.
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Date: 8/4/20
Statement: Before we start, there is ... so much more, but this is a lot of writing, so if you want more, I'll probably drop more in later down the line!
So where the Ghost River splits into two legs and then rejoins at the bottom forms the Ghost River Triangle. It starts in Baniff Natural Park, near Alberta, Canada down to Flathead National Forest in Montana. As far back as we can track it, it’s always been a hotbed for supernatural activity. The interesting thing about the Triangle, however, is that not only does it keep certain supernatural creatures in, it also keeps other things out. It acts as both a barrier and a shield at the same time. For a long time we weren’t really sure why, but it turns out that the Ghost River Triangle happens to be protection Paradise, aka the Garden aka That Garden, with the snake and the tree, etc.
The main bad guys in the Triangle are the Revenants (more on that later) but since the barrier between the Triangle and the rest of the world went down we’ve gotten everything from soul eating demons to gnomes to vampires. The world is our proverbial supernatural oyster.
We don’t know much about the Garden yet. It’s kind of a new development, so I’m just gonna put a pin in that for now. Also we’re well aware that it doesn’t make sense that the Garden of Eden is in the frozen North of Canada but I have theories about that, if you ever want to hear them!
What we do know is this: the Garden was originally placed in the hands of two angels, Juan Carlo and Julian. Juan Carlo vacated his post first, when Bulshar Clootie first became a big problem in the late 1800s, and Julian closer to the 1990s. The steps to the Garden can only be seen by angels, mortals who are virtuous enough or by champions designated by the angels in question.
Over time, a small town called Purgatory popped up. It was one of those Western resettlement homestead towns, nothing special but drew the usual collection of saloons and settlers, bad guys and good guys for a rootin’ tootin’ western adventure. A demon named Bulshar Clootie, who also happened to be the aforementioned snake, set up shop in the Ghost River Triangle with his creepy spider sisterwives and a powerful witch known as the Stone Witch, to try and find the Garden so that he could break his way back in.
He didn’t find it. It took him a while.
Eventually he named himself sheriff, but he wasn’t really doing much sheriffing. Crime was running rampant, as it tended to do in these settlement towns. Sometime in the late 1800s, the famous lawman Wyatt Earp arrived in Purgatory with his posse to try and track down some bad guys, as he do. Juan Carlo, one of the angels of the Garden, deemed that he was worthy and gave him a flaming sword disguised as a Colt Buntline Special called Peacemaker. Wyatt set off writing the wrongs of the Ghost River Triangle, trying to set justice in his own way, but on the way, he murdered Bulshar’s sons.
Thus, Bulshar created a curse.
Every time the oldest Heir of Wyatt Earp turned twenty-seven, the seventy-seven people Wyatt killed with Peacemaker would resurrect as Revenants that only Peacemaker could put down. The Heir would be tasked with sending the Revenants back to Hell until all seventy-seven are gone or they die.
(Most of them died.)
The curse is now defunct, thanks to the efforts of the latest Heir, but it’s unclear what the ramifications from that will be in the long term – it’s a new development.
Okay, so. Revenants. I don’t know the names of all of them, though God knows I’ve tried, but in what I’ve learned over the years, there is no one-size-fits-all Revenant. There are certain standard behaviors, which are as follows:
It’s after that where things get a little messy.
As far as we can tell, they all have a power of some kind, and that power is unique to the Revenant themselves. Some are hyper specific to them and their personality, ie. Killer Miller could turn out the sun and blend into shadows, an exaggeration of his abilities as an assassin. Others were related to their deaths: August Hamilton was drowned and his body was chained to the bottom of a lake that he couldn’t leave, even as a Revenant, and he was able to move through town through reflective surfaces.
And then some of them were just random. Bobo Del Ray could move metal objects with his mind. We don’t really know why.
It also isn’t entirely true that all of these people were terrible people. The terms of the curse was not “every bad guy Wyatt ever dealt with becomes a Revenant” – it was every person Wyatt shot. This means that not all of these Revenants were bad people or deserved to die at Wyatt Earp’s hand. However, that doesn’t change the fact that they did, and while some of the Revenants continued to be good people, the same is not true for all of them.
Basically, even subjected to Hell, Revenants are still people and making the Heir hunt them all the time was kind of sucky.
With the curse being lifted, it’s unclear where the Revenants stand, or even if they still exist, but who knows? Since we’re in Hell, some of them might show up here.