11/27/2023 0 Comments 32 lives resurrectedThey're still the corpse of a dead creature, after all - it's just a moving around kind of dead.ĭistinction here: the undead creature being destroyed doesn't mean the soul is destroyed. I think you could cast resurrection on an undead PC even if they aren't destroyed. The thing that returns from a resurrection (barring appropriate feats) won't be undead.Īctually, technically. and rendered into parts that are suitable for calling that person back to a fully living state via resurrection. they return to life (and not to being undead). ![]() if their original death was recent enough for the level you've heightened the ritual to. Thus, you *can* cast resurrection on a "destroyed" undead. heightened to 7, you can have only part of the body (say, a decent supply of bones) and they have to have died within the past decade. The effects of Resurrection is explicitly "They return to life." At level 6, you need the whole body, and they must have died within the past year. Yes, it's another edition, but the only precedent for preventing the raising of undead is language in the PF1 raise dead spell, which itself is explicitly ignored for the 7th and 9th level resurrection spells: "You can resurrect someone killed by a death effect or someone who has been turned into an undead creature and then destroyed." And in previous editions, having "some small portion" of the body was all you needed to resurrect someone (and 9th level PF1e True Resurrection didn't even need this). Since Resurrect in 2E doesn't preclude resurrecting undead creatures (whereas it did in PF1E), I think RAW is that it can.Īs for the corpse "destroyed," the only operable rules in 2E are in reference to items and not creatures. ![]() Obviously, they might say "no", if they like the life they have, but what if they don't? What happens if they say "yes"?įor reference, this thread from the subreddit seemed to come down on the side of being able to resurrect destroyed undead: ead/ So this suggests the possibility where you try to resurrect someone who's already living a different life as a different person. "the target doesn’t wish to return" - so even without that, we can pretty much assume that the soul in question will have been washed clean and moved on eventually. "The Lady of Graves has decided that the target’s time has come" - I mean, once you're more than 50 years after their death, wouldn't that be kind of a given? How are the increasing time spans for the really high-level versions of this even applicable? it gets weird, because fo the two caveats. Now, Resurrection heightened to 10th is actually even more interesting, since (by the way the Golarion afterlife works) those souls will eventually reincarnate. Now, if its heightened to 9th, then those issues go away. and if you're talking about a skeleton who's been undead for more than a year they don't qualify under that, either. So, if you're talking about a skeleton, then they're not really intact. ![]() And resurrection requires "the target’s body to be present and relatively intact." This is up to GM interpretation, but I'd imagine that a destroyed (0 hit point) undead is "intact" enough for resurrection purposes.)ĮDIT: What got me thinking about this was the 9th-level ancestry feat Rejuvenation Token, which specifically says that resurrect using your soulbound object doesn't bring you back to life but returns you to your Skeleton state. I think saying the PC is destroyed is a holdover from talking about bringing undead monsters and NPCs down to 0 hp, because doing so doesn't "kill" the undead creature. But can they still be resurrected and returned to life by the ritual, so long as the spell's requirements are met (died within the past year), yes? So it seems implied that the PC is gone for good. In Book of the Dead, undead characters brought down to Dying 4 are destroyed.
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