[Powers] Resurrection with Option to Cancel

[JCurwen3]

Originally Posted by Pomphis

I am curious about the consequences for the game world. The Gods of Death (or Life) grant Extra Life only with a backdoor in case the resurrectee turns against them ? The less nice resurectees suddenly have a strong reason to get their resurrector killed as fast as possible ? The resurrectors keep secret files to be opened by their successors in case they are murdered ?

All of the above are possible consequences depending on the world. In the game world I GM, the ability represents a summoning (forcing) of the spirit and soul of a person back to their body, after which the body gains a virtually perfect semblance of life. No gods are involved; and although it obviously can be used for good, it was developed by self-serving necromancers that most would call evil. But the ability is contrary to the natural order, and there is an artificial quality to the life that's restored (some good, some bad); the complete ability would resurrect people with Unaging, Sanitized Metabolism, Less Sleep 8 (not Doesn't Sleep because they don't need to sleep but they can be made to sleep), Doesn't Eat or Drink, the feature "Doesn't count as life for purposes of things like Detect Life", and Cannot Learn (applies to Physical improvement too).

It's loosely based on some resurrection abilities seen in Lovecraftian fiction. Naruto (an anime) also has a chakra-based resurrection technique which is similar.