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[unknowntodeath]

Out of morbid curiosity, has anyone of us otherworlders died during their stay here and then been brought back to life? If so, how does that process work?

I've heard there are other worlds (like this) where coming back to life happens but I'm curious to know how this place handles death.

Since we're connected to our familiars I can be imagine they'd be affected by our death too.

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[bakudan_bambino]

I think you’d have to get the help of someone with very strong magic. Morganna perhaps?

Or perhaps you just respawn?

I could have died a few months back, but didn’t, so I’m curious, too.

[unknowntodeath]

If it's Morganna you need to depend on to get revived, I can't imagine the cost being small. Maybe even an equal sacrifice of a life.

Respawning would definitely be easiest and nicest way to go by.

[bakudan_bambino]

You think so?

And what would happen to a person that is dead and waiting to be brought back? Are they a ghost? Do you think they get a new body entirely? What if their old body is destroyed beyond function? Does their soul then inhabit the newly sacrificed body if that is the cost of such a thing?

It would be. I died in the last world I was in, came back… relatively good as new. Had a weird defect, but it hasn’t changed anything too important.

I’ve been wondering a lot about the dead in this world, honestly. About funerals, and how death is handled in general.

[unknowntodeath]

You're asking difficult questions.

I would guess you'd remain as a ghost until you're brought back if you don't respawn. Death mages can communicate with them. It would be fair to assume they are needed to actually find someone's spirit.

Rituals come in different varieties and strengths. I wouldn't be surprised if you inhabited the sacrifices body if your own is unusable.

I know the Death Ball happens in Lestari every year, but not much of funerals.

[bakudan_bambino]

Yeah

Just for discussion. I feel like it’s important, and not enough people ask the difficult questions. I have more, if you want to hear them. If not, it’s fine.

Were you ever on another world aside from Avalon?

[unknowntodeath]

I don't mind.

No. I know of a few who have been.

[bakudan_bambino]

So obviously on this world we can die, but the questions is, do we stay dead? Can we come back, and how? Do you know anything about the possibility of making new life in this world?

Have you died before?

[unknowntodeath]

You mean through pregnancy? I don't. Frankly, I'm terrified of the thought of otherworlders starting to have babies. What will happen to the children when we depart? Especially if the people are from different worlds.

I have.

[bakudan_bambino]

It was possible for me two years ago, but the government took the children. They also took the dead. Packed them into vehicles to dump them off where off-worlders couldn’t go.

I think studying life here is maybe just as important as studying death, but I agree that it is terrifying.

It’s uncomfortable…

So if you left this world, you’d likely be gone?

[unknowntodeath]

I doubt something like that would happen in Camelot.

But yes, both sides are equally important.

No. I'm still alive, even if I'm something other than a human. I've been alive for centuries.


... but I'm not a vampire.

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[corruptedsave]

You know that's something I'd been wondering too, has anyone died here yet?

I don't think anyone has, at least out of us otherworlders.

[unknowntodeath]

If someone has I doubt they would announce it to the network... but it never hurts to actually ask.

A lot of people who live here have died though.

[corruptedsave]

If they did that would be useful, wouldn't it?

And yeah, but things are different for us compared to them.

[unknowntodeath]

We're not really supposed to exists here in the first place.

One option is definitely a permanent game over.

[corruptedsave]

Are we ever meant to exist anywhere?

Yes, that's one option and one I hope isn't true. Just because it feels kind of depressing to consider.

[unknowntodeath]

You're such a cheerful kid.

It would be rather anticlimactic.

[corruptedsave]

I try.

And yet probably the most likely thing to happen.

[unknowntodeath]

I guess there's no way of knowing unless someone actually dies.

[corruptedsave]

Basically! If it happens to me though, you'll be one of the first I'll let know what happens.

[unknowntodeath]

Thanks. I'll be sure to share my fate with you, too.

[Though it looks like they'll get answers faster than that, if Chara is looking at the rest of the post.]

[corruptedsave]

Cool, mister.

[They may have checked other replies to this, and find it kind of disappointing! The answer that is.]

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[resistetmords]

Please don't do anything that might get yourself hurt. You seem like a good guy!

As for the question itself, I'd imagine you'd probably come back eventually?

[unknowntodeath]

I'm not planning on anything.

You really think it's that simple?

[resistetmords]

You better not be! Otherwise....

[Leaving the message open to interpretation. What could the otherwise be? Obviously something super menacing, like whoa!

She's honestly just joking here.]

But, I mean, it's probably not simple. Normally the normal thing would happen, right? But there's nothing normal about this place. So why not? Maybe we get a pass on such things while we're here?

[unknowntodeath]

Oh no, I'm scared.

Yet death as a subject is also pretty tricky around here. Ghosts and spirit exists, Death Mages are probably here for a reason.

[resistetmords]

You better be, I'm super scary when I need to be! >:3

They probably are here for a reason, and since they do exist you might be onto something. Oh! Like some freaky necromancer that resurrects your corpse by shoving your spirit back inside your body!

...That might be kind of gross though.

[unknowntodeath]

Yet that might very well be what happens, if the body is in good enough shape to return to.

[resistetmords]

If that's the case then do you think whatever did you in is healed... and you're not just... well a ghost possessing a dead body.

Because that might be more troubling than just being a ghost!

[unknowntodeath]

I hope so, especially with healing magic.

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[custodire]

[ ... A world where people come back to life? Such a thing is impossible, especially in her own world, but the way in which they speak prove they believe otherwise — ]

Sorry, if I'm misunderstanding — Are you saying it's guaranteed those who are lost return here or are you asking if it's possible?

[unknowntodeath]

I'm asking if it's possible. It has been possible in other worlds similar to this one where people from multiple worlds appear, so I'm simply curious what's the case here.

Of course this place does bring people here even after they've passed back in their home world.

[custodire]

So you're saying a situation such as Avalon isn' a new phenomena?

Does it? I wasn't aware.


[ Which, to be fair, as far as she's aware she's the only one from her own world here. Beyond that, it's all news, especially given that the rules in her own world very strictly said people could not come back from death. ]

My apologies again for any questions that sound ignorant. I'm still new to Avalon and these aren't circumstances that would be possible in my home.

[unknowntodeath]

It's not. There seems to be at least one world that's similar. A friend of mine was in that world before coming here and remembers everything from there.

It's alright. As for your question, yes, it is. It's also possible for people to get dragged into this world from different times. Someone who you knew might turn appear here as a child. Or even after seeing something you have yet to experience.

[custodire]

That's quite a lot to take in.

Having not seen it myself, it's difficult to imagine any place where life-and-death and time is treated like a child's toy. Not that I believe you have any reason to lie to me either. But thinking about the dead walking the earth again... That one would always be a complicated matter.

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[politicallyinclined]

I cannot help you with that particular scenario, however I was dead before I arrived. This world brought me back to life. I don't see why it couldn't accomplish the same miracle for others.

[unknowntodeath]

Hmm. You make a fair point. However, our arrival is a little bit more complicated than the world's usual magic, so there's still the off chance of something not going right when you actually pass away during your stay here.

[politicallyinclined]

There will always be unknowns. I wish I could set your mind at ease. Have you lost someone?

[unknowntodeath]

No. Death is just a strong presence in my life.

[politicallyinclined]

I have known death and I have no desire to revisit that...shift.

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[weenwoon]

[ Well, this is certainly not a good topic for Hythlodaeus, but he does want to help out. ]

Upon death, our familiars leave us. My first one was a firebird; now a different creation accompanies me.

[unknowntodeath]

As I suspected. They are very tightly connected to us.

Would you be comfortable answering a few more questions? I understand if not. Dying is not a simple matter.

[weenwoon]

I can try. As you say, 'tis no easy thing to speak of.

My one request, however, would be to speak in private... And if you would be willing to answer, I would ask why you seek that knowledge?

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[emet_sulk]

You appeal to Morganna for aid and trade one life for that of the one you wish to resurrect.

[unknowntodeath]

Is the sacrifice needed to provide a new body for the deceased one or just a life for life?

[emet_sulk]

A life for a life. One soul to take the place of the other.