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Revived
The revived are those who died, whether in battle or of sickness in bed, and have come back to live among the living, for the gods of the realm work in mysterious ways. A revived remembers nothing of the afterlife, only a voice calling them back, and it seems that some godly power wants them alive. They live with this secret and try to find their way back into the world they once left.12
Some of the revived begin to hear whispers near the recently dead, and cannot tell whether the dead are speaking to them or whether some bond now ties them to the afterlife, a bond that most people, and the clergy of Alarath above all, believe to be heresy.12
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