Preserving a body for revival

zot · 06-24-2018, 04:31 AM

I needed to make a way to preserve a body for Revival at a later time for my priest system.

It's presented as a ceremony but this idea could easily be turned into a spell. Because of the way ceremonies work, in order to have something like the Revival spell, there also has to be a way to preserve a body past the one-hour limit. So that needed another ceremony :). Here are the two ceremonies, taken from the Village Wise One religion. Feel free to reconfigure them. These operate on groups instead of individuals, due to the constraints and flavor of the priest system (you can read it for the full context and details). Note that the flavor text for these ceremonies is linked to the Village Wise One religion, a corresponding Mngineer ceremony might make no mention of a soul or spirits (perhaps Mngineers deny the existence of an afterlife, I'm not sure at this point):

Gift of the Bear Clan: Your supplications attract a bear clan which approaches the bodies, one of their spirits entering each dead body and anchoring its soul. The bear spirits cause the bodies to hibernate spiritually until the next new or full moon. A hibernating dead person may be brought back with a ceremony or a Revival spell, even though more than one hour may have passed. This only works on people who died at or since the previous appointed time.

Gift of the Moon (Theologian 4, new or full moon): The spiritual power of the moon restores a group to life, provided they died after dusk or they have been somehow preserved. Requires 5 acolytes.

06-24-2018, 04:31 AM	#1
zot Join Date: May 2018	Preserving a body for revival I needed to make a way to preserve a body for Revival at a later time for my priest system. It's presented as a ceremony but this idea could easily be turned into a spell. Because of the way ceremonies work, in order to have something like the Revival spell, there also has to be a way to preserve a body past the one-hour limit. So that needed another ceremony :). Here are the two ceremonies, taken from the Village Wise One religion. Feel free to reconfigure them. These operate on groups instead of individuals, due to the constraints and flavor of the priest system (you can read it for the full context and details). Note that the flavor text for these ceremonies is linked to the Village Wise One religion, a corresponding Mngineer ceremony might make no mention of a soul or spirits (perhaps Mngineers deny the existence of an afterlife, I'm not sure at this point): Gift of the Bear Clan: Your supplications attract a bear clan which approaches the bodies, one of their spirits entering each dead body and anchoring its soul. The bear spirits cause the bodies to hibernate spiritually until the next new or full moon. A hibernating dead person may be brought back with a ceremony or a Revival spell, even though more than one hour may have passed. This only works on people who died at or since the previous appointed time. Gift of the Moon (Theologian 4, new or full moon): The spiritual power of the moon restores a group to life, provided they died after dusk or they have been somehow preserved. Requires 5 acolytes.