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The Vivanomicon
Or: The Book of Life
An ever expanding work by Lorelyn Avera, Paladin and Emissary of Divinity
With editing by Nox Falon, Master Necromancer
This work will discuss, outline and define the qualities of Vivamancy: Divinity, Divine Magic, or Holy Magic, however one may see fit to call it.
Firstly, it is important to note that the terms divinity, divine magic and holy magic are mutually inclusive and define all magic that is sourced to the Gods, as utilized by mortals. The term to be used for the discipline in dealing with holiness, gods, divinity or divine magic, is Vivamancy.
Divine Magic is the counter, or opposite, to Necromancy in functionality, but similarities can be seen in that they both manipulate "life" and work with "souls," though divinity is concerned a great deal more with soul work than Necromancy. For more information regarding the distinguishing characteristics of Necromancy to Divinity in terms of magic and effect, please consult Nox Falon's Necronomical information within the Necronomicon.
Gathering & Utilizing ‘Divine Energy’
Most essentially, this topic concerns the concept of the ‘soul’ heavily, but for an immediate grasp of how to gather and utilize Divine Energy, the explanation is simple; it is obtained through divine aimed prayer, meditation, & divine spiritual focus through divine alignment.
* Divine Aimed Prayer: Fairly straightforward-- one prays for the boons of a deity. This is the most basic and common form of gathering divine energies to execute related spells.
* Meditation: Related to prayer, it is merely the extended duration of prayer, where-in one enters a state of trance designed to commune with the deities desired and channel their strength.
* Divine Spiritual Focus: Not to be confused with Meditation, spiritual focus is achieved when one places a strong effort on one particular deity for strength, and dedicates their efforts as such to the deity.
* Divine Alignment: Simply the act of being aligned, or allied, with the gods. This is the more divine inspired decision, given that the gods may not recognize one's individual efforts particularly, or shine upon one individual in particular, unless they are drawn to.
Utilization comes in the form of spells, which are outlined by the basic disciplines of Divine Energy:
*Restoration: These are spells focused on restoring health, by either instant revitalizing means, physical wounds, status ailments, or healing extended over a period of time. The healing of Cursed wounds is also possible through Restoration, albeit significantly more difficult.
*Smiting: As the name suggests, this means to utilize Divine-based energy as a weapon, to harm opponents. The main methods of smiting are Channeling, which is enhancing a weapon’s based strike using Divine energy, and Bladeform, which refers to creating a weapon out of pure Divine energy.
*Fortification: This is divine magic concentrated to protect, adding defense based buffs to the self or others.
*Miracles: A rarer, high level form of Divine Magic; those who are truly devout to the gods may utilize the power of miracles. Within this branch of Divine Magic, you may find the spells of Resurrection, and other yet to be discovered miracles that would be as divine inspiration from the gods, acted out from the mortal shell.
On the ‘Soul,’ & the Containment of Divine Energies
As such a pervasive and all-encompassing concept, a key is needed to discuss and define the Soul as per the Dragonstar Galaxy. The below points are some fundamental principles of the Soul.
* The Soul is the primordial essence of 'beings,' carrying qualities such as sentience, attachment to the mortal plane, & life force/energy:
This principle, being perhaps the most fundamental, basically dictates a living being's existence.
- Individual consciousness is recorded within the soul. The divine, or perhaps even very skilled occult disciples, can access the soul as a book, reading its information, and understand a given individual.
- Individuals are attached to mortality, and maintain their sentience/consciousness through the bond of a soul and a body, typically, and death occurs when the soul and body separate. This separation can occur a variety of ways, but the most typical is by obvious physical death. One a soul has left its shell, barring resurrection, it is a basic impossibility to restore it. As explained in a point below, this separation creates unlife energy.
- Finally, one's soul determines their overall life force and energy, and whether that energy is positive or negative has to do with the purity of the soul. A soul starts out as pure given that it is not cursed in some way or created artificially as described below. Through the course of a soul's existence, it may increase in purity, gaining positive energy from doing so (thus allowing it to harbor more Life energy, which is described in the next point) or decrease from its original luster, considered as gaining impurity, which may also be referred to as corruption. Different actions beget different results in terms of purity or impurity, but almost certainly the fine line between pure and impure is divided in discipline by Vivamancy and Necromancy respectively. A powerful example of corruption would be the continued detrimental use of necromancy, as it is a crime against nature (of sorts) in many cases, or purification in the case of devout worship and praise to a divinity, or the leading of a righteous lifestyle, or using of Vivamancy for positive ends. Do not mistake the association of purity and impurity to divine force only, as the soul is manipulated and abused or repaired in ways separate from a gods tampering. It should also be noted that this quality of the soul very powerfully determines the effectiveness or difficulty (in performance) of vivamancy, and to some other extent, necromancy. For more information on how the soul and Vivamancy/Necromancy work, please read the Vivanomicon or Necronomicon respectively, located in the link list here.
* The Soul is responsible (and necessary as a component) for harboring Life and Mana energy types: Think of the Soul itself as a container in this case, with varying capacities dependent on the individual (the obvious devout will have a larger capacity for divine magic, the skilled arcanist will have more mana, and so on). Life energy can be interpreted as divine magic, and is associated with Vivamancy as explained in the Vivanomicon. Mana is associated with the arcane (elemental) and other disciplines of magic, however not typically associated with necromancy. One cannot have Life energy or Mana without a soul. Substitutions for Mana are available, but Life energy is fundamentally reliant on the soul itself.
* The Soul is necessary for high-level intelligent life (but there are "exceptions"):
In order for high-level intelligence to be achievable, a Soul is a generally basic requirement. Examples of exceptions to this rule would be artificial intelligence, but it is only an exception to a certain degree before the fallback naturally lands under the category of being soulless. This quality is more explained below in how Souls act as containers created divinely for existence itself.
* The Soul in its complete, full and genuine form, is a unique and divinely inspired/created unit:
Replica souls can be created by incredibly skilled individuals, but it is impossible to fully and completely create a genuine soul. Each soul is unique in its entirety, responsible for consciousness as explained in the first point above, leading to individuals.
* Absence of the Soul begets Unlife Energy:
Self-explained point, but more specifically, Unlife energy is prevalent in Necromancy, in which some creatures utilize it in the absence of a soul to cast spells (per the Necronomicon).
The soul is the most complex piece involving Divine Energy, essential and pre-defining for nearly every aspect of Vivamancy. In this segment, its use in Vivamancy will be outlined.
* Souls are containers for Divine Energy: The power of any given diviner's spell, at least in one part, is reliant on the amount of divine energy they will dedicate to the spell's usage. This implies there is a given amount of divine energy in the soul of the caster, and this is true-- however, there is a maximum for every soul, and thus, they act as containers. The maximum is determined by dozens of factors, including but not limited to the proximity with which they worship their god or gods, the intentions of their actions, their willpower, and so on. The complexity of this matter is something only the gods could anticipate, but naturally it is assumed Vivamancers gain strength (and thus capacity for divine energy in their soul) as they progress in their righteous lives as Paladins, Monks, Priests and so on. Think of Divine Energy as fluid, rather than a certain amount is required to perform spell x; the reality is that any spell can be attempted, but its effectiveness (if it does anything at all) is at least partially determined by the amount of divine energy put into it.
* Soul purity/impurity is directly correlated to Divine Energy: This is the most prominent measure of intensity and reception of Vivamancy. Will your smite be powerful? Under this simple question, there come at least two more. Is the enemy's soul corrupt? Is your soul corrupt? In another scenario, you are attempting to revive an ally. Is his soul strongly connected to his corporeal form? Is he corrupt or pure? By how much? How corrupt or pure are you? How much divine energy can you put into a spell? These are the kinds of questions that Soul purity/impurity with relation to divine energy, as well as the above explained soul container quality, can help to answer.
How Divine Energy Affects Beings
Divine energy takes a light and bright form. Why is that? It is because of the way divine energy is channeled and the way it manifests in nature within beings.
* Divine Energy is shared: Divine energy originates as a hope extended from the mortal to the god, where it is translated into the energy "spared" by the god. That energy can take absolutely any form-- however, the only form that it manifests while within a mortal soul container is a light and bright energy, because that is the way nature ended up manifesting this light form of energy within mortals. It is possible that certain gods change the form in which their gifted energy appears, but they generally do not (except for the poignant example in Sho'varath, who is associated with Necromancy)
* Divine Energy is grounded in the mortal Soul: Even though it is spared, or shared by the gods, Divine energy is grounded by the mortal soul. That is, it appears as it does because it inherits the mortal soul which it inhabits as its container, and mortal souls reflect in this way in nature. This also means that the energy is primarily the mortal's own soul energy, and that the god only grants boons based on the soul's capability of accepting such boons. This helps explain the direct relation between soul, god, and divine energy.
* Based on the Soul, Divine Energy harbors varied effects: As explained above in detail about the soul itself, the target will be affected on the basis of their soul. For further information, see The Mechanics of Divine Energy.
The Mechanics of Divine Energy
Thus far, we have formed the foundation for understanding, studying and even utilizing divine energy. Now, to understand how it works behind the scenes, we have a simple, loose and pragmatic approach.
* Divine Magic works in relation to both the caster and the target: Importantly, not only the purity of the caster is considered in the usage of this magic. If the target is corrupt, that will change the outcome of the magic. For example, the target is a very corrupt undead-- that will result in higher damage if a smiting prayer is used, or even negative healing effects if healing is used.. as opposed to if the target is an ally with a corrupt soul, where the ally may be hurt by healing rather than helped. The effectiveness of resurrection is also strongly coordinated by the souls of both the target and the caster. This point is outlined in the Soul point below, and also in the above description of the Soul itself.
* Divinity is a kind of defined, practical working magic: Divine Energy has physical effects, and is visible as a light/bright colored energy when used; this point is emphasized in the way Vivamancy is used for healing and restoration as explained with corporeality below. Compare/contrast with Necromancy being a manipulation of Life and Unlife, rather than a tangible, corporeal and permanent effect.
* The Soul itself pre-sets the effectiveness, capacity and capability of maintaining, using and containing Divine Magic: The purer your soul, the more effective your connection to the deities, and thus, the stronger your divine magic may become. Corrupt individuals are hard-pressed to perform divine magic well, if at all. Also, a more complete soul will result in a larger container for divine energy, making exhaustion less likely, and so on.
* Divine Energy has permanent and corporeal effects: If your arm is completely severed, divine energy can be used to reattach your arm flawlessly, and with potentially permanent functionality; compare/contrast this to the usage of Necromancy to merely "re-animate" and bring "temporary control" to corpses, etc.
Resurrection (n.)
The revitalization or revival of something.
Typically, the term has a religious connotation, so on that basis it is be treated as something associated with very high level holy magic or necromancy. For more information on how that might apply to necromancy, see Nox Falon's Necronomicon.
The difference between some other reanimating spells that necromancy may offer, is that high level consciousness-restoring, persona-restoring & all inclusive body-restoring magic is not covered by necromancy. That is not to say that it will not be, but rather that it is debatable whether that should be possible through that dark art.
Talking about the necessity for resurrection itself, death, we must understand first what happens when death occurs. Typically, we can understand it as a separation of the soul from the physical body, and the death of living tissue. Those are almost two different concepts to be covered in themselves, but let us treat them as one for now. As the soul separates, the level of separation is important to know, as well as where the soul goes upon complete separation.
Murder and assassination would leave at least some connection, varying on person and situation, of the soul to the body.. where-as natural death or a more battle-oriented understandable death so to speak, would result in the very immediate/quick separation of soul from body. The level of separation determines the difficulty of performing resurrection; if a soul is completely separated, resurrection may as well be impossible. There may be a follow-up discussion on what can be done with a soul post-separation, but this volume is not concerned with that.
Given what we have about souls and their importance with resurrection, we now must discuss limitations on resurrection as a "skill." There are limitations based on the following points:
* Time limitation ( Temporary resurrection, revival for only a period of time. )
* Diminishing soul connectivity ( If revived once, connection is lessened each successful revival. in some souls, the soul rejects corporeal form completely after only one revival. )
* Other negative effects of resurrection ( Diminished intelligence, diminished energy, diminishing personality or other mentality related things, and any other diminishing qualities to be determined at time of resurrection. )
* Complete and total resurrection is possible ( However, it is directly dependent on the caster's capabilities and condition of the Soul. )
On the Finality of Death
Death occurs naturally throughout the universe, but resurrection can offer either a temporary reprieve from it, or a second-chance, given that there are individuals skilled enough with revival itself to do so. Varying levels of skill are required, in addition to the varying ways souls are treated in regards to resurrection (whether one particular soul refuses a corporeal form, or whether souls have an innate limitation for out-of-body existence, and where they go, etc). For more on Souls themselves, read more into this Vivanomicon.
Please note that the Vivanomicon’s explanation of the Soul can be used to interpret the Soul in different areas or disciplines of the universe.
Also, the formatting is thanks to the fine Master Necromancer, Nox Falon. Thank him, else he shall drink of your liver turned wine.
Or: The Book of Life
An ever expanding work by Lorelyn Avera, Paladin and Emissary of Divinity
With editing by Nox Falon, Master Necromancer
This work will discuss, outline and define the qualities of Vivamancy: Divinity, Divine Magic, or Holy Magic, however one may see fit to call it.
Firstly, it is important to note that the terms divinity, divine magic and holy magic are mutually inclusive and define all magic that is sourced to the Gods, as utilized by mortals. The term to be used for the discipline in dealing with holiness, gods, divinity or divine magic, is Vivamancy.
Divine Magic is the counter, or opposite, to Necromancy in functionality, but similarities can be seen in that they both manipulate "life" and work with "souls," though divinity is concerned a great deal more with soul work than Necromancy. For more information regarding the distinguishing characteristics of Necromancy to Divinity in terms of magic and effect, please consult Nox Falon's Necronomical information within the Necronomicon.
Gathering & Utilizing ‘Divine Energy’
Most essentially, this topic concerns the concept of the ‘soul’ heavily, but for an immediate grasp of how to gather and utilize Divine Energy, the explanation is simple; it is obtained through divine aimed prayer, meditation, & divine spiritual focus through divine alignment.
* Divine Aimed Prayer: Fairly straightforward-- one prays for the boons of a deity. This is the most basic and common form of gathering divine energies to execute related spells.
* Meditation: Related to prayer, it is merely the extended duration of prayer, where-in one enters a state of trance designed to commune with the deities desired and channel their strength.
* Divine Spiritual Focus: Not to be confused with Meditation, spiritual focus is achieved when one places a strong effort on one particular deity for strength, and dedicates their efforts as such to the deity.
* Divine Alignment: Simply the act of being aligned, or allied, with the gods. This is the more divine inspired decision, given that the gods may not recognize one's individual efforts particularly, or shine upon one individual in particular, unless they are drawn to.
Utilization comes in the form of spells, which are outlined by the basic disciplines of Divine Energy:
*Restoration: These are spells focused on restoring health, by either instant revitalizing means, physical wounds, status ailments, or healing extended over a period of time. The healing of Cursed wounds is also possible through Restoration, albeit significantly more difficult.
*Smiting: As the name suggests, this means to utilize Divine-based energy as a weapon, to harm opponents. The main methods of smiting are Channeling, which is enhancing a weapon’s based strike using Divine energy, and Bladeform, which refers to creating a weapon out of pure Divine energy.
*Fortification: This is divine magic concentrated to protect, adding defense based buffs to the self or others.
*Miracles: A rarer, high level form of Divine Magic; those who are truly devout to the gods may utilize the power of miracles. Within this branch of Divine Magic, you may find the spells of Resurrection, and other yet to be discovered miracles that would be as divine inspiration from the gods, acted out from the mortal shell.
On the ‘Soul,’ & the Containment of Divine Energies
As such a pervasive and all-encompassing concept, a key is needed to discuss and define the Soul as per the Dragonstar Galaxy. The below points are some fundamental principles of the Soul.
* The Soul is the primordial essence of 'beings,' carrying qualities such as sentience, attachment to the mortal plane, & life force/energy:
This principle, being perhaps the most fundamental, basically dictates a living being's existence.
- Individual consciousness is recorded within the soul. The divine, or perhaps even very skilled occult disciples, can access the soul as a book, reading its information, and understand a given individual.
- Individuals are attached to mortality, and maintain their sentience/consciousness through the bond of a soul and a body, typically, and death occurs when the soul and body separate. This separation can occur a variety of ways, but the most typical is by obvious physical death. One a soul has left its shell, barring resurrection, it is a basic impossibility to restore it. As explained in a point below, this separation creates unlife energy.
- Finally, one's soul determines their overall life force and energy, and whether that energy is positive or negative has to do with the purity of the soul. A soul starts out as pure given that it is not cursed in some way or created artificially as described below. Through the course of a soul's existence, it may increase in purity, gaining positive energy from doing so (thus allowing it to harbor more Life energy, which is described in the next point) or decrease from its original luster, considered as gaining impurity, which may also be referred to as corruption. Different actions beget different results in terms of purity or impurity, but almost certainly the fine line between pure and impure is divided in discipline by Vivamancy and Necromancy respectively. A powerful example of corruption would be the continued detrimental use of necromancy, as it is a crime against nature (of sorts) in many cases, or purification in the case of devout worship and praise to a divinity, or the leading of a righteous lifestyle, or using of Vivamancy for positive ends. Do not mistake the association of purity and impurity to divine force only, as the soul is manipulated and abused or repaired in ways separate from a gods tampering. It should also be noted that this quality of the soul very powerfully determines the effectiveness or difficulty (in performance) of vivamancy, and to some other extent, necromancy. For more information on how the soul and Vivamancy/Necromancy work, please read the Vivanomicon or Necronomicon respectively, located in the link list here.
* The Soul is responsible (and necessary as a component) for harboring Life and Mana energy types: Think of the Soul itself as a container in this case, with varying capacities dependent on the individual (the obvious devout will have a larger capacity for divine magic, the skilled arcanist will have more mana, and so on). Life energy can be interpreted as divine magic, and is associated with Vivamancy as explained in the Vivanomicon. Mana is associated with the arcane (elemental) and other disciplines of magic, however not typically associated with necromancy. One cannot have Life energy or Mana without a soul. Substitutions for Mana are available, but Life energy is fundamentally reliant on the soul itself.
* The Soul is necessary for high-level intelligent life (but there are "exceptions"):
In order for high-level intelligence to be achievable, a Soul is a generally basic requirement. Examples of exceptions to this rule would be artificial intelligence, but it is only an exception to a certain degree before the fallback naturally lands under the category of being soulless. This quality is more explained below in how Souls act as containers created divinely for existence itself.
* The Soul in its complete, full and genuine form, is a unique and divinely inspired/created unit:
Replica souls can be created by incredibly skilled individuals, but it is impossible to fully and completely create a genuine soul. Each soul is unique in its entirety, responsible for consciousness as explained in the first point above, leading to individuals.
* Absence of the Soul begets Unlife Energy:
Self-explained point, but more specifically, Unlife energy is prevalent in Necromancy, in which some creatures utilize it in the absence of a soul to cast spells (per the Necronomicon).
The soul is the most complex piece involving Divine Energy, essential and pre-defining for nearly every aspect of Vivamancy. In this segment, its use in Vivamancy will be outlined.
* Souls are containers for Divine Energy: The power of any given diviner's spell, at least in one part, is reliant on the amount of divine energy they will dedicate to the spell's usage. This implies there is a given amount of divine energy in the soul of the caster, and this is true-- however, there is a maximum for every soul, and thus, they act as containers. The maximum is determined by dozens of factors, including but not limited to the proximity with which they worship their god or gods, the intentions of their actions, their willpower, and so on. The complexity of this matter is something only the gods could anticipate, but naturally it is assumed Vivamancers gain strength (and thus capacity for divine energy in their soul) as they progress in their righteous lives as Paladins, Monks, Priests and so on. Think of Divine Energy as fluid, rather than a certain amount is required to perform spell x; the reality is that any spell can be attempted, but its effectiveness (if it does anything at all) is at least partially determined by the amount of divine energy put into it.
* Soul purity/impurity is directly correlated to Divine Energy: This is the most prominent measure of intensity and reception of Vivamancy. Will your smite be powerful? Under this simple question, there come at least two more. Is the enemy's soul corrupt? Is your soul corrupt? In another scenario, you are attempting to revive an ally. Is his soul strongly connected to his corporeal form? Is he corrupt or pure? By how much? How corrupt or pure are you? How much divine energy can you put into a spell? These are the kinds of questions that Soul purity/impurity with relation to divine energy, as well as the above explained soul container quality, can help to answer.
How Divine Energy Affects Beings
Divine energy takes a light and bright form. Why is that? It is because of the way divine energy is channeled and the way it manifests in nature within beings.
* Divine Energy is shared: Divine energy originates as a hope extended from the mortal to the god, where it is translated into the energy "spared" by the god. That energy can take absolutely any form-- however, the only form that it manifests while within a mortal soul container is a light and bright energy, because that is the way nature ended up manifesting this light form of energy within mortals. It is possible that certain gods change the form in which their gifted energy appears, but they generally do not (except for the poignant example in Sho'varath, who is associated with Necromancy)
* Divine Energy is grounded in the mortal Soul: Even though it is spared, or shared by the gods, Divine energy is grounded by the mortal soul. That is, it appears as it does because it inherits the mortal soul which it inhabits as its container, and mortal souls reflect in this way in nature. This also means that the energy is primarily the mortal's own soul energy, and that the god only grants boons based on the soul's capability of accepting such boons. This helps explain the direct relation between soul, god, and divine energy.
* Based on the Soul, Divine Energy harbors varied effects: As explained above in detail about the soul itself, the target will be affected on the basis of their soul. For further information, see The Mechanics of Divine Energy.
The Mechanics of Divine Energy
Thus far, we have formed the foundation for understanding, studying and even utilizing divine energy. Now, to understand how it works behind the scenes, we have a simple, loose and pragmatic approach.
* Divine Magic works in relation to both the caster and the target: Importantly, not only the purity of the caster is considered in the usage of this magic. If the target is corrupt, that will change the outcome of the magic. For example, the target is a very corrupt undead-- that will result in higher damage if a smiting prayer is used, or even negative healing effects if healing is used.. as opposed to if the target is an ally with a corrupt soul, where the ally may be hurt by healing rather than helped. The effectiveness of resurrection is also strongly coordinated by the souls of both the target and the caster. This point is outlined in the Soul point below, and also in the above description of the Soul itself.
* Divinity is a kind of defined, practical working magic: Divine Energy has physical effects, and is visible as a light/bright colored energy when used; this point is emphasized in the way Vivamancy is used for healing and restoration as explained with corporeality below. Compare/contrast with Necromancy being a manipulation of Life and Unlife, rather than a tangible, corporeal and permanent effect.
* The Soul itself pre-sets the effectiveness, capacity and capability of maintaining, using and containing Divine Magic: The purer your soul, the more effective your connection to the deities, and thus, the stronger your divine magic may become. Corrupt individuals are hard-pressed to perform divine magic well, if at all. Also, a more complete soul will result in a larger container for divine energy, making exhaustion less likely, and so on.
* Divine Energy has permanent and corporeal effects: If your arm is completely severed, divine energy can be used to reattach your arm flawlessly, and with potentially permanent functionality; compare/contrast this to the usage of Necromancy to merely "re-animate" and bring "temporary control" to corpses, etc.
Resurrection (n.)
The revitalization or revival of something.
Typically, the term has a religious connotation, so on that basis it is be treated as something associated with very high level holy magic or necromancy. For more information on how that might apply to necromancy, see Nox Falon's Necronomicon.
The difference between some other reanimating spells that necromancy may offer, is that high level consciousness-restoring, persona-restoring & all inclusive body-restoring magic is not covered by necromancy. That is not to say that it will not be, but rather that it is debatable whether that should be possible through that dark art.
Talking about the necessity for resurrection itself, death, we must understand first what happens when death occurs. Typically, we can understand it as a separation of the soul from the physical body, and the death of living tissue. Those are almost two different concepts to be covered in themselves, but let us treat them as one for now. As the soul separates, the level of separation is important to know, as well as where the soul goes upon complete separation.
Murder and assassination would leave at least some connection, varying on person and situation, of the soul to the body.. where-as natural death or a more battle-oriented understandable death so to speak, would result in the very immediate/quick separation of soul from body. The level of separation determines the difficulty of performing resurrection; if a soul is completely separated, resurrection may as well be impossible. There may be a follow-up discussion on what can be done with a soul post-separation, but this volume is not concerned with that.
Given what we have about souls and their importance with resurrection, we now must discuss limitations on resurrection as a "skill." There are limitations based on the following points:
* Time limitation ( Temporary resurrection, revival for only a period of time. )
* Diminishing soul connectivity ( If revived once, connection is lessened each successful revival. in some souls, the soul rejects corporeal form completely after only one revival. )
* Other negative effects of resurrection ( Diminished intelligence, diminished energy, diminishing personality or other mentality related things, and any other diminishing qualities to be determined at time of resurrection. )
* Complete and total resurrection is possible ( However, it is directly dependent on the caster's capabilities and condition of the Soul. )
On the Finality of Death
Death occurs naturally throughout the universe, but resurrection can offer either a temporary reprieve from it, or a second-chance, given that there are individuals skilled enough with revival itself to do so. Varying levels of skill are required, in addition to the varying ways souls are treated in regards to resurrection (whether one particular soul refuses a corporeal form, or whether souls have an innate limitation for out-of-body existence, and where they go, etc). For more on Souls themselves, read more into this Vivanomicon.
Please note that the Vivanomicon’s explanation of the Soul can be used to interpret the Soul in different areas or disciplines of the universe.
Also, the formatting is thanks to the fine Master Necromancer, Nox Falon. Thank him, else he shall drink of your liver turned wine.
