On Dying... and Coming Back

Everyone died. Makë, youngest of the three gods, chased down all upon her white horse and took them with lasso to Aiät, a dreamland of planets circling a black hole of eternal damnation. Death was, for everyone but the most powerful, utterly final. To die was to be exposed to the primal chaos and madness of the universe as it was in the days before the gods; cold, hungering, eldritch, and unknowable. To return was to see this truth of the afterlife that only ghosts, devils, and angels could know. Makë would take notice of those who cheated death, if it caught her attention. See "On Hell and the Afterlife" for an explanation of where souls went; the benevolent, the neutral, the evil, and those who died at sea, judged, or sent to the black hole.
== On Revival ==
=== Effect on the Ritualist... ===
During a ritual to bring oneself or another back from the dead, the ritualist had to burn a sliver of their own soul through sheer determination to defy the will of Goddess Makë. This act bonded the soul of the ritualist and the risen. The ritualist might inherit some part of the risen, especially that which the risen had lost. Their favourite food, most cherished memory, their love for another, their mannerism, the colour of their eyes that the risen lost. Other times, the ritualist might gain some primal fear or share some powerful memory with the risen. 
=== ...Effect on the Risen... ===
The person being revived might suffer for it, though. As mentioned above in the Holy Book of Sorrow 3•1, a person coming back from the dead lost some small part of themselves. Their personality, others' memory of them, their likes, their mind, memory, or their love. Their ritualist might, but not always, gain this, in some equivalence.
== Notable Cheaters of Death ==
* Caoilith imCwynëvir, a huntress who was finally killed by Malak Coldblood.
* Heinrich the Mad Lich - MULTIPLE times, till he became a soulless lich.
* Anaïs Disforza, the outlaw knight.
* Malachar of the Order of the Crimson Shroud
* Jason Greysword, indomitable condottiere captain
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