Resurrection of characters.

[georgelee5786]

You all miss the point, and talk about one side of bringing back a character to life. It is my mistake for phrasing it wrognly.

I'm not talking about spell resurrection. I'm talking about bringing back a character to life, doesn't matter how. You wrote how this guy got decapitated, and after 50 chapters he is back as a vampire. He was not resurrected as is, in a pristine condition.

Example of another side of bringing back a character to life. MC is on a task to kill the main villain. MC has a crew. One of MC's crewmates dies in a fight. In the next big fight MC and remaining crewmates see that the dead one was brought back to life via necromancy. Now they have to fight their own comrade that was deemed to be dead.

If it doesn't break any established rules, it's fine. It can have good emotional pay off if done right, but I don't particularly like or dislike it

 

[owotrucked]

I'm not talking about spell resurrection. I'm talking about bringing back a character to life, doesn't matter how. You wrote how this guy got decapitated, and after 50 chapters he is back as a vampire. He was not resurrected as is, in a pristine condition.

Example of another side of bringing back a character to life. MC is on a task to kill the main villain. MC has a crew. One of MC's crewmates dies in a fight. In the next big fight MC and remaining crewmates see that the dead one was brought back to life via necromancy. Now they have to fight their own comrade that was deemed to be dead.

Much better than bringing new randoms that you have to introduce and bother the reader with fodder lore

 

[2wordsperminute]

I like resurrection if it either brings back a character whose arc isn't finished or contributes to a character's arc (not necessarily the one that was revived). It's like a sequel.

 

[BearlyAlive]

I like resurrection if it either brings back a character whose arc isn't finished or contributes to a character's arc (not necessarily the one that was revived). It's like a sequel.

But what if the resurrection while contributing to one arc destroys another one? Or if it outright negates previous arcs (without meaning to)?

 

[2wordsperminute]

But what if the resurrection while contributing to one arc destroys another one? Or if it outright negates previous arcs (without meaning to)?

Depends on which arc I prefer at that point.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

A long time ago, I had one of my characters cloned after he died, but I didn't use any additional technology to speed up his growth, so he just got implanted into one of the other characters for a normal pregnancy. They had quite the debate over which one would get to carry the fetus.

 

[Zagaroth]

It's always settings/story dependent.

For a Dungeon story, you can expect respawning as a default for inhabitants. For a few dungeon stories, it is possible for a dungeon to earn the ability to grant instant-rezz to delvers with some limitations.

For my own work, I have established that there are rituals for resurrecting the dead, but they are difficult and expensive, and the cost is still consumed even if the ritual doesn't work.

Reasons the ritual can fail: skill issue, bad luck interruption, the person likes their afterlife and doesn't want to come back, the divinity with dominion over the soul says no, the soul is unavailable for any of several reasons. And I am sure I am missing some possibilities.

Difficulty goes up over time, as does the chances of the soul rejecting the resurrection. Also, the souls who have messed up enough to go in front of the Judge of the Dead instead of going straight to their own deity's afterlife are unlikely to be allowed to resurrect, making villainous sorts much harder to resurrect in general.

Hypothetically, if you stashed the soul of a Big Bad into a soul gem or something to keep it from heading to the afterlife, you could perform a resurrection with the soul gem present during the ritual.