He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
"--Does the body have to be identical to the real corpse immediately after it died? My father--he helped raise the twins--he was very old--"
"It does not have to be identical - I fixed Mr. Franklin's lungs and pulled your state from right before you were hurt - but I don't know the exact tolerances and in particular I'd worry that using a younger body would risk losing some memories of the later life, though there's nothing in the literature about it either way since the spell's authors didn't have my affordances."
Mom Whately retreats somewhere private with Kids Whately to discuss features of how she died and the intervening two years that they would rather not immediately air in front of a Founding Father.
"Sure! Here's my procedural writeup, I cobbled it together from a chain of sources - some of it's Arabic and stuff -"
If any of the stuff is French or Italian he can read that. Anything else he'll need translated.
Cam has not rendered anything into French or Italian that was not already that way. He can translate the Arabic.
"This part I'm hoping can exponentiate," he says. "Even if more daeva can't be summoned, more people can be trained to do resurrections and then I just need to make bodies."
"It would have to be treated very carefully--I wonder if your conjurations could specify between someone resurrected correctly and one who craves human flesh."
"That doesn't naively seem like a conjurable parameter. How'd - oh, there's probably footnotes about the historical forensics in some of your books."
"I find myself tempted to simply get lost in a sea of books! But that's best left at least until all the low-hanging fruit has been plucked on bringing this one up to par."
"I mean, mine's a really useful case study. For instance, we have time to intervene before World War II!"