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: <h5>Bringing Back the Dead</h5>

: Several spells have the power to restore slain characters to life.

: Several spells have the power to restore slain characters to life. When a living creature dies, its soul departs its body and moves to some mysterious afterlife that is unknowable to those still alive. Spells which restore a character back to life pull the soul back into the body of the slain creature.

: When a living creature dies, its soul departs its body, leaves the Material Plane, travels through the Astral Plane, and goes to abide on the plane where the creature's deity resides. If the creature did not worship a deity, its soul departs to the plane corresponding to its alignment. Bringing someone back from the dead involves magically retrieving his soul and returning it to his body. For more information on the planes, see Environment.

::'''Essence Destruction'''

:: Any creature brought back to life usually gains one or more points of [[Essence Destruction]], which suppresses the use of one or more abilities, feats, or spell levels of the victim until healed. Essence Destruction will never heal on its own, but can be cured with [[Restoration (Spell)|Restoration]] and [[Restoration, Greater (Spell)|Greater Restoration]] spells, or effects which mimic these spells.

::'''~~Negative Levels~~'''

:: Any creature brought back to life usually gains one or more ~~permanent negative~~ levels. ~~These levels apply a penalty to most rolls until removed through~~ spells ~~such as restoration. If the character was 1st level at the time of death~~, ~~he loses 2 points of Constitution instead of gaining a negative level~~.

::'''Preventing Revivification'''

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-: Several spells have the power to restore slain characters to life.
+: Several spells have the power to restore slain characters to life.  When a living creature dies, its soul departs its body and moves to some mysterious afterlife that is unknowable to those still alive.  Spells which restore a character back to life pull the soul back into the body of the slain creature.
-: When a living creature dies, its soul departs its body, leaves the Material Plane, travels through the Astral Plane, and goes to abide on the plane where the creature's deity resides. If the creature did not worship a deity, its soul departs to the plane corresponding to its alignment. Bringing someone back from the dead involves magically retrieving his soul and returning it to his body. For more information on the planes, see Environment.
+::'''Essence Destruction'''
+:: Any creature brought back to life usually gains one or more points of [[Essence Destruction]], which suppresses the use of one or more abilities, feats, or spell levels of the victim until healed. Essence Destruction will never heal on its own, but can be cured with [[Restoration (Spell)|Restoration]] and [[Restoration, Greater (Spell)|Greater Restoration]] spells, or effects which mimic these spells.
-::'''Negative Levels'''
-:: Any creature brought back to life usually gains one or more permanent negative levels. These levels apply a penalty to most rolls until removed through spells such as restoration. If the character was 1st level at the time of death, he loses 2 points of Constitution instead of gaining a negative level.
 ::'''Preventing Revivification'''

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