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Message: <blockquote data-quote="morbiczer" data-source="post: 1509362" data-attributes="member: 15119">That's true. The people in the Iron Islands follow a deity named the Drowned God. There is a ritual where his followers get drowned by a priest in the sea and after they fall unconciuos they are revived. There is no magic involved, the priests simply use the same technics as present day life guards (don't know what they are called in English). People are expected not to resist but those whose faith isn't strong enough are held under the water forcefully. It seams that usually this ritual is done once in a life. Normaly this is done to adults but we have heard of a character whose head was simply dipped in seawater in his early childhood and that fulfilled the ritual although the fanatic priest in the book thought that this was cheating. A popular saying of the people of the Iron Islands is "What is dead can never die" which means that since they were drowned once and then revived, they can't really die afterwards. Dragon 305 has a novella by George R R Martin (the author af A Song of Ice and Fire, the actual name of the Game of Thrones series), where this ritual is described in detail. If you have access to this Dragon, you could look it up for inspiration.</blockquote>