Shattered Kingdoms

I'm very much opposed to limiting resurrections by alignment. This forces both gods and their priests to put someone's alignment above everything else that matters to them, to the injury of roleplay.

There's a better solution. If getting resurrected made one's heart race, it wouldn't be so easy to escape the consequences of tricking a priest. As is, post-resurrection recall means a liar will almost always escape. I know I'd be more willing to take chances with resurrections if I had a chance of immediately correcting a mistake.

Arguing about this change on the basis of mechanics is valid - AKA "Will it be too difficult to get a resurrection?" Arguing about this change on the basis of RP makes absolutely no sense to me. If you belong to a light aura god, by definition he does not like dark aura people. Regardless of how you RP your priest, you aren't going to talk your god into using his power to resurrect someone diametrically opposed to his values.

on a basis of mechanics I do think it should be harder to ress...
You can still death quest, reincarnate....

While I could see light aura gods caring about the aura of the people their priests pray for, would the dark aura gods be as inclined to care what aura the priest is praying for?

Are we talking about restricting it to the same aura, or just opposing aura resrtriction?

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I think it's a bad idea to restrict the aura of people you can resurrect - there can always be extenuating circumstances.

For example, an aberrant character could easily follow the tenets of, for example, Dulrik. Or even Calrion. Likewise, there have been light aura followers of several dark aura gods.

I think the best choice of action is to show what afterlife the character is, though that might prevent RP. If you make it so that you cannot rez opposite aura's. then you are hard-coding the game.

I think as far as lightie Gods are concerned there should be no reason why a darkie would be resurrected. The lightie Gods do not like darkies so why would they grant them life? The Gods know all so why would Dulrik give life to a follower of Thuban? Grey Gods have their limitations as well in some instances. Nashira would never give life to a necromancer. I think that some coding should be done to make restrictions, but it should be entirely based on the rules of that faith. I've never heard a dark aura priest deny a lightie a resurrection, but most darkie priests that I know of believe that is shows a weakness in the lightie and by aiding them they're exploiting them and also in some ways tainting them. It is also fun as a darkie to make it known that a lightie would accept aid from a darkie out of desperation. Such examples can be seen in resurrections of the Sadr faith and used to be seen with the Zynor faith.

While people can try to ensure that only those truly deserving receive life it is impossible for a priest to see a dead persons aura unless a shaman is standing around to perform constant seances. If a priest res's a person of the wrong aura then they face blemishment and are typically required to kill the person which may not be possible.

alright then...

Lighties can ress lighties and darkies ress darkies,,,

Achernar should be able to ress all

Ain should be able to ress sargas, algorab, drulik, alshian.

Marfik can ress mira, sadal, yed, thuban, aludra, meissa, archernar

Mira can ress sadal, yed, thuban, mafik archernar, meissa, aludra

Nashira can ress yes, sadr, sadal, achernar, meissa, aludra, dabi

Sadal can ress nashira, mira, yed, ain, thuban, archernar,

Yed can ress nashira, mira, marfik, acherner, sadel, sadr, Zavijah

Panthiest Do not get the favor of the gods, (other then achernar) other then shamans if they are not allowed to join a religion * I think*
in wich case the shaman will only be able to be ressed by thiere own aura priest…

Anyone with a better list please give it...

Hard coding is not good, especially such restrictions when everyone says there are not enough priests in SK. Let it be as it is today, the priests are mortals and they make faults, they are not gods to know the aura of who they rez.

And if they rez someone against their principles, they can kill him. And tell everyone of the same church/aura to hunt down those that stole their gods' blessings. You know, you can RP such situations. *gasp*

And if any priest really wants to check the aura of someone, he can have a shaman seance the ghost and check the aura as well. That means they have to RP with a shaman ofcourse(oh, RP again).

I had darkies get a rez from lighties before due to cabal affiliations, I had darkies get(demand actually ) a rez from lighties due to prior RP, I had darkies trick lighties to get a rez and RPed the whole situation afterwards. And I really enjoyed these rezzes, more than I enjoyed the classic t priest-of-same-aura rezplzkthx.

My 2 cents.

As I stated before the problem is not that people lie to get a ress....
If that was the problem then I would be agianst the change.... The problem is that priest offer resses to easily... even for people that shouldnt be getting the ress....

They are not lied to but they know the person OOC so they find a BS RP reason to ress them....