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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 425358" data-attributes="member: 2486">There are two ways you can prevent resurrection: flavoursome (or RP) methods or mechanical methods.RP Methods can include the wizard having such a good afterlife that he does not wish to come back, or there being taboos against resurrection.  IMC, for example, the major world religion regards raised characters as 'undead' with all the negative connotations attached to it, and actively hunt and kill them.  This would make any cleric very reluctant to raise him.  Alternately, there could simply be a conspiracy.  An interesting twist would be that there is a God of the Underworld (a la Hades) and those being raised must have his 'permission'.  For whatever reason, this god wishes the wizard to stay dead.  Finally, you could implement there being a conspiracy to keep the wizard dead, which can prevent his resurrection in a number of different ways.Mechanical Methods could include banning raising/resurrection altogether, though this seems excessively harsh.  The old fashioned method is soul containment: using Soul Bind, Trap the Soul or similar magic.  Soul destruction is trickier, but barghests can have a good go, and there is a spell in R&R (Shatter Soul I think it's called) which performs a similar service.</blockquote>