RUMBLETiGER
Adventurer
I want to pick your collective brains about a precise wording problem.
I am currently playing a LN Tiefling Wizard who is all about contractual agreements like his devil ancestors. He is currently engaged to be married to another PC, and I'm trying to figure out a part of his written up marital covenant.
How do you, with words, capture the spirit of "till death do we part" lifelong commitment, in a world with resurrection magic? It is very likely that, in combat a, "died, Breath of Life cast that round, keep going" or "died, Raise Dead cast 2 days later" situation might happen and then "oops, loophole, guess we don't have to be married anymore". While at the same time, if "it's been 2 years, He's not coming back, you can move on" is still a reasonable way this could play out.
How might an agreement be written to maintain the marriage within the time span of resurrection magic could be used? Including some reasonable expectation that the spouse would at least try to pursue the option to bring the other back?
The marriage is a political move, the PC's have recently been made nobles by the king, and 2 PC's figured they'd have more power married than individually. This is not a romantic union. The bride-to-be is a LE Tiefling Wizard, so contractual agreement without loopholes would be super important.
If it matters, this is in a Pathfinder game.
I am currently playing a LN Tiefling Wizard who is all about contractual agreements like his devil ancestors. He is currently engaged to be married to another PC, and I'm trying to figure out a part of his written up marital covenant.
How do you, with words, capture the spirit of "till death do we part" lifelong commitment, in a world with resurrection magic? It is very likely that, in combat a, "died, Breath of Life cast that round, keep going" or "died, Raise Dead cast 2 days later" situation might happen and then "oops, loophole, guess we don't have to be married anymore". While at the same time, if "it's been 2 years, He's not coming back, you can move on" is still a reasonable way this could play out.
How might an agreement be written to maintain the marriage within the time span of resurrection magic could be used? Including some reasonable expectation that the spouse would at least try to pursue the option to bring the other back?
The marriage is a political move, the PC's have recently been made nobles by the king, and 2 PC's figured they'd have more power married than individually. This is not a romantic union. The bride-to-be is a LE Tiefling Wizard, so contractual agreement without loopholes would be super important.
If it matters, this is in a Pathfinder game.