God Of War: 8 Weirdest Enemies (And What They Represent)

Too swift to hit with your axe and laughing in the face of hard combat, Revenants are a level up from your average foe. Functioning somewhat like a shaman to the rest of the masses, legend has it that they're witches who traded their souls off to become more powerful at magic. Eventually, they end up losing their humanity - but they're still really good at spell-casting even if they are undead spirits, so that's something.

With long black hair and a wooden staff, the Revenants of the game capture the witch-y look well, moving in a cloud of smoke as a representation of them straddling two worlds; no longer human, but not Draugr, either.

The spines along the Revenants back are particularly interesting when you take a look at some of the nastier ways to die in Norse tradition. The blood eagle was the practise of breaking someone's ribs from the back and pulling their lungs out from the inside to create wings - something the Revenant's pointed bones and hunched back reflects as she swoops around the battlefield.

The long history of witches being executed in horrible fashion over the years - from being hanged to burned alive at the stake - lends itself nicely to this visceral Norse punishment being their final goodbye to the world after losing their souls to magic. As if being condemned to an afterlife of hanging out with grunting zombies wasn't enough.