Absolutely! Here's what we had for it in the game I pulled him from:
- He needs the resurrectee's original body, including the head. He can't regrow extremities so no head = no rez. - There's a link between body and soul, like a chain. He has to follow that down into the Dark to pull them through from the other side. - The longer a person's been dead, the weaker that link is and the harder it is to follow. - And sometimes the link just isn't there at all, making them impossible for him to resurrect.
In that game, the explanation for how it worked was that he could only access souls which had ended up in the Dark. There were other, unknown afterlives that he couldn't access, so if the soul had ended up in one of those afterlives, he wouldn't be able to find any link to follow.
In this game, I was thinking there are probably infinite afterlives, since it's sort of an "all legends are true" setting, but Duncan can still only resurrect people through the Dark. If a soul is in an afterlife that's cosmically adjacent to the Dark, he can pull them across the dimensional barrier into the Dark and then back into their body. But if they're in one that isn't, he can't even find the link at all. So basically anyone can arbitrarily decide that a character is impossible for Duncan to resurrect and the IC reason is that their soul is out of his reach, no further justification necessary.
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- He needs the resurrectee's original body, including the head. He can't regrow extremities so no head = no rez.
- There's a link between body and soul, like a chain. He has to follow that down into the Dark to pull them through from the other side.
- The longer a person's been dead, the weaker that link is and the harder it is to follow.
- And sometimes the link just isn't there at all, making them impossible for him to resurrect.
In that game, the explanation for how it worked was that he could only access souls which had ended up in the Dark. There were other, unknown afterlives that he couldn't access, so if the soul had ended up in one of those afterlives, he wouldn't be able to find any link to follow.
In this game, I was thinking there are probably infinite afterlives, since it's sort of an "all legends are true" setting, but Duncan can still only resurrect people through the Dark. If a soul is in an afterlife that's cosmically adjacent to the Dark, he can pull them across the dimensional barrier into the Dark and then back into their body. But if they're in one that isn't, he can't even find the link at all. So basically anyone can arbitrarily decide that a character is impossible for Duncan to resurrect and the IC reason is that their soul is out of his reach, no further justification necessary.
Does that work?