Revival System

Death and Revival

Once, dying in the multiverse was was not the most difficult of feats to accomplish for the mortal beings. It was something that could have been achieved by the smallest step in the wrong direction-or by facing the terror of the unknown head on. Now, dying is still not the most difficult thing, but the rules of how it works are vastly different within the fracture.

Once, revivals were a simple, yet fickle thing. Though often possible by means other than the fallen divine, no other route of revival was more reliable than that of the Ascended, Arvora’s chosen which led a life of virtue to uphold her holy tenants, and revived the deceased who's death had come before their true time.

Yet now, there is no Arvora, no Ascended to being back the dead, and even more so, the rules of revival have changed in this new world we have found ourselves in. Now, the soul lingers with the lack of the true concept of death holding it up, as the fallen god Morto once did.

OOC Rules

• When a person is killed, the soul will detach from the body. Until the body itself is healed or a willing host is found, the person will stay dead and cannot be revived.
  • There is no maximum or minimum timer for this.
    • In order for the soul to make a body come to (or back to) life, it must be in immaculate condition, with the only variable being that it is not currently housing a soul. This process is instantaneous when it occurs.
• If a character joins the lost, their soul is reverted back to infancy and loses all of its personality, memories and being, effectively becoming a clean slate. While one can eventually acknowledge and piece together some of who they were, most of it is lost forever, and the person they are now will never become who they were once before.

Souls

The soul of a living being is connected to the body by unseen forces known as “tethers”. These tethers extend from the soul and root it within a body in order to provide life to the being. When living things are injured, the tethers that connect the soul to the body are weakened. When the tethers that connect the soul to the body are severed, death occurs. When death occurs, the soul drifts up out of the body, and lingers nearby until it is either revived, a new host is found, or someone manages to manipulate or guide it somewhere else.

Memory Penalties

When a soul is placed into a body after death, all memories associated with the death automatically become blurry. This blurring cannot be prevented/undone. The character will not be able to figure out who killed them from these memories, but will still vaguely remember how they died. This blurred memory is traumatic and will result one or more of the following: Phantom Pains Phobias/Fears Nightmares/Trouble Sleeping

If a soul is placed into a new body that is not their own, they suffer from the bodies inability to possess the muscle memory and practice they once used to. As a result, they are not nearly as skilled for the first OOC week of their revival, and many of their original skills will need to be re-trained in the body, albeit in a far shorter duration then originally learning.