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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altamont Ravenard" data-source="post: 1539385" data-attributes="member: 14700">Funny that a guy named "dead" would bring up the social repercussions of Raise Dead <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It brings back to memory a Graphic Novel that I really like, Chroniques de la Lune Noire, wherein one of the latest books [spoiler] the last scene is the hero lying on the floor, dead at the end of his enemy. First page in the next volume: They raise the hero. Big whoop[/spoiler]What I'd like to do with the Raise Dead mechanic is make people fear it, because it has a chance of "changing" the character that's brought back (think Pet Cemetary).You're right in thinking that the social implications of having access to raising magic would be mind-blowing. People who don't have access to it would probably indeed hate the people that do have access to it, and could very well develop some kind of superstitious phobia of it.Or the clerics that can actually perform the ritual could become very protective of it. Then they could become the target of intimidation, or they could develop a monopoly. There could be some "rogue" clerics that perform raisings out of the confine of a specific church hierarchy...The possibilities are clearly endless.</blockquote>