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No rule is inviolate
Twist: When I ran a "Kingmaker" campaign (Pathfinder, Celtic pantheon), our setting had the following rules/mores regarding death:
If you die and are resurrected, you are treated as if you died. All your titles, inheritance, land, etc. go to your heirs. This was enforced by the god of the dead's priesthood, which preferred to give its blessing for anyone to be raised in the first place, sometimes sending avatars of death to attack those who sought to raise the dead without a blessing. You could try and hide it, but blessed or unblessed, the priests knew and spread the word.
If using this twist, this might provide a layer of intrigue if there were "raise dead" contingencies in play, regardless of the "god of the dead" in the Realms. Would the resurrected Grand Dukes be content to fade into the background, or would they try and influence their successors?
If you die and are resurrected, you are treated as if you died. All your titles, inheritance, land, etc. go to your heirs. This was enforced by the god of the dead's priesthood, which preferred to give its blessing for anyone to be raised in the first place, sometimes sending avatars of death to attack those who sought to raise the dead without a blessing. You could try and hide it, but blessed or unblessed, the priests knew and spread the word.
If using this twist, this might provide a layer of intrigue if there were "raise dead" contingencies in play, regardless of the "god of the dead" in the Realms. Would the resurrected Grand Dukes be content to fade into the background, or would they try and influence their successors?