Ace Dreamer Wrote:Putting body, mind and soul or spirit together into something which can live a normal life is often glossed over. There may be issues of fate or destiny that may make the process more difficult. Tricking the world into believing this is a conventional birth might suit some approaches. Or the "still has unfinished work to do" may be used. If the soul or spirit is unwilling to be resurrected then they may get a veto - continuing a resurrection after this (which may not even be possible with the simpler 'packaged' resurrection approaches) may give you the body and mind you want, but a new person, who will likely develop over time their own new purposes and motivations ("free soul with every new incarnation"). Producing an 'instant adult' like this can really upset the natural process of life and death, or the guardians of this, in some settings.
Then there are wonderful issues of AIs and souls or spirits - these are often assumed to be equivalent to biological beings, with a soul or spirit as long as you're dealing with something more than a glorified expert system. Resurrecting an AI may be quite feasible, but need a slightly different approach.
So, resurrection can be a thoroughly explored area of magical engineering! Not like these 'cast and pray' approaches!
IF there is something like a soul, I wonder what was happened with victims of Quattros memory tech... if you kill/erase the "mind", does the soul leave? If you copy a mind from one body to another (Vivio became a shallow copy of Cathy), does a new soul appear or does the original one split?