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<blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 8274368" data-attributes="member: 17607"><p>For additional support for this point, note that every edition of Ravenloft has altered how magic works within the Dread Realms, including the Raise Dead spell, yet no version of Ravenloft I'm aware of has made it impossible or an auto-fail to cast Raise Dead on a native of Ravenloft. (Casting Raise Dead has, in pretty much every edition of Ravenloft, provoked a Powers Check, which suggests that the Dark Powers view those who cast Raise Dead as susceptible to the temptation of power which leads to corruption.)</p><p></p><p>This is especially significant for Ravenloft during AD&D 2nd edition, as at that time, full-blooded elves could not actually be brought back to live via Raise Dead and required a Resurrection spell to be brought back to life. If Raise Dead had a similar restriction on natives of the Demiplane of Dread, the rules for how the spell operates in Ravenloft would likely have noted it.</p><p></p><p>tl;dr: If you can cast Raise Dead on it, then it has a soul.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>Pauper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pauper, post: 8274368, member: 17607"] For additional support for this point, note that every edition of Ravenloft has altered how magic works within the Dread Realms, including the Raise Dead spell, yet no version of Ravenloft I'm aware of has made it impossible or an auto-fail to cast Raise Dead on a native of Ravenloft. (Casting Raise Dead has, in pretty much every edition of Ravenloft, provoked a Powers Check, which suggests that the Dark Powers view those who cast Raise Dead as susceptible to the temptation of power which leads to corruption.) This is especially significant for Ravenloft during AD&D 2nd edition, as at that time, full-blooded elves could not actually be brought back to live via Raise Dead and required a Resurrection spell to be brought back to life. If Raise Dead had a similar restriction on natives of the Demiplane of Dread, the rules for how the spell operates in Ravenloft would likely have noted it. tl;dr: If you can cast Raise Dead on it, then it has a soul. -- Pauper [/QUOTE]
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