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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7993269" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I've restricted access to bringing someone back from the dead for several editions now for thematic reasons.  I use Norse mythology as my base, and even gods like Baldur can irrevocably die.  Why should mortals be any different?So all souls travel through Nifleheim/Shadowfell before moving on to their final destination.  To raise someone from the dead you need to physically go into Nifleheim which is a dangerous task.  Resurrection is basically unheard of.As far as magical healing, while there are few people that can heal with a single word, I do assume that magical healing is just part of the world.  That brew the hedge witch makes really does increase your odds of surviving a disease, wounds are less likely to get infected with a magical poultice and heals more quickly.So I just assume these things are part of normal life.  After all, something has to compensate for all those people getting killed off by things that go bump in the night.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>