So the paladin feat, Ultimate Mercy, allows a paladin to duplicate a raise dead spell. The raised suffers 2 permanent negative levels, and 1 temporary negative level that automatically clears after 24 hours if the paladin chooses not to use the 5000gp material component.
What happens if you use ultimate mercy on a level 1 character? Raise dead does not prohibit you from doing this, the permanent negative levels are converted to permanent constitution losses, 2 per negative level. But what about the temporary level?
Does the 1st level character
a) lose 4 points of constitution permanently and 2 points temporarily,
or
b) promptly die again, because the temporary negative level kills them?
And what about a 2nd level character? Permanent negative levels first or second? Do they lose 2 points of con permanently and 2 temporarily? Do they get drained to 1 and then die as a level 1 character may? Does the temporary level go first, so they lose 4 con permanently?
What happens if you use ultimate mercy on a level 1 character? Raise dead does not prohibit you from doing this, the permanent negative levels are converted to permanent constitution losses, 2 per negative level. But what about the temporary level?
Does the 1st level character
a) lose 4 points of constitution permanently and 2 points temporarily,
or
b) promptly die again, because the temporary negative level kills them?
And what about a 2nd level character? Permanent negative levels first or second? Do they lose 2 points of con permanently and 2 temporarily? Do they get drained to 1 and then die as a level 1 character may? Does the temporary level go first, so they lose 4 con permanently?