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Spontaneous Sentient BioChromatic Manifestations in a Deceased Host, also known as the [[Returned]], are the only known natural BioChromatic entity. They retain sentience after being Returned following death, and are endowed with a divine Breath. Returned are able to Awaken normally using any Breaths on top of their divine Breath, but giving away the divine Breath results in death.
 
The '''divine Breath''', a single powerful Breath that grants themthe powers of the Fifthfirst five HeighteningHeightenings, is a [[Splinter]] of [[Endowment]]. Giving away the divine Breath to another person will instantly heal that person, at the cost of the life of the Returned.<ref>Warbreaker Annotations Ch. 12</ref>
 
===Type II===
In order to achieve the most interesting and extravagant Awakening, more than one Breath is required. Since each person is born with a single Breath, an Awakener must collect Breaths from other individuals. The method by which this is done is itself a type of Awakening, using the Command "My life to yours, my Breath become yours." The person imparting the Breaths must be in physical contact with the recipient.
 
As a person gains more Breaths, they are granted certain properties. These [[Heightening]]s, as they are known, are markers along a continuous scale of Breath. As a person gains more Breath, they are more resistant to disease (for example), but at approximately 2,000 Breaths this reaches a maximum and they are immune to most diseases.
==Heightenings==
 
The number of Breaths for each Heightening are approximate. Depending on the quality of Breath, it may take fewer Breaths to realize a Heightening. Furthermore, very little is known about the upper Heightenings (above the Sixth). Very few individuals amass such a store of Breath.
 
==[[Heightening]]s==
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