Ok, a LONG time back there was a thread on how undeath, etc, effects souls and raise dead, true resurrection, etc.
Following the Mummy's Mask adventure, I have to wonder about the Boneyard, and just how long it takes Pharasma to judge someone.
The reason I wonder this is, in the second part of the adventure, we see someone do something that creates a LOT of instant undead, including undead which have souls, and not just from fresh bodies, but from corpses dead several thousand years.
I know this is artifact level power, but...
The second thing it made me wonder is that when working magic like 'raise dead' do you count time elapsed from when they stop breathing, or when they stop moving? Because, arguably, undead die again when slain. Something like a mummy has it's soul, or at least part of it (and, this is the central conceit of the entire adventure) and Pharasma's judgment is why there's a time limit on magical resurrections, wouldn't they be freshly 'dead' when defeated, no matter how long they had been undead?