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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 4123700" data-attributes="member: 36160">Wait, what?You don't believe that saying to the (grieving) relatives of the dead woman that she can't be raised via this ritual, the only way to reunite the husband with his wife would be by a) storming the gates of the land of the dead and searching there for her shade, or b) the easy road?I mean, "the laws of nature prohibit it" is usually a pretty good show stopper. Nobody (in game)'s going to be happy about the fact that the wife remains inert, but there are different ways of spinning this, out of game.Imagine that there is a ritual that is performed at funerals that keeps the corpse fresh -- it keep rot from the coffin for a year, and ensures that the spirit of the slain travels swiftly to its just reward.In one out of a gajillion instances, however, the ritual causes the corpse to stand up and return to life, healed of all injury and in the bloom of life. This isn't by chance; it happens only in times of great events and mortal struggle, and anyone who returns to life via this method will return over and over and over again until their role in the great struggle is complete.What is there there to riot over? The priest did the ritual. Nothing more to say. You might riot anyway -- people sometimes riot over things which in retrospect seem like terrible catalysts -- but then we're talking high melodrama, and this is hardly campaign warping.</blockquote>