| Jiraiya22 |
Soul Eaters have an ability that makes resurrection more difficult when they kill a target from Wisdom damage
Soul Drain (Su)
If the Wisdom damage from a soul eater’s claw attacks equals or exceeds an opponent’s actual Wisdom score, rendering the victim helpless, the soul eater can devour that creature’s soul as a standard action that provokes an attack of opportunity. This attack kills the victim. The dead victim can resist having her soul eaten by making a (DC 17) Fortitude save; success means she is still dead, but can be restored to life normally. If she fails this save, her soul is consumed by the soul eater. A victim slain in this manner cannot be returned to life with clone, raise dead, or reincarnation. She can be restored to life via resurrection, true resurrection, miracle, or wish, but only if the caster can succeed on a DC 30 caster level check. If the soul eater is killed within 120 feet of its victim’s corpse, and the victim has been dead for no longer than 1 minute, the victim’s soul returns to her body and restores her to life, leaving her unconscious and at –1 hit point. This is a death effect. The save DC is Constitution-based.
It specifically calls out Raise Dead and Reincarnate as not working when the soul is eaten but implies that these spells work when the victim makes the Fort save upon dying. However, because this is a death effect, Reincarnate and Raise Dead shouldn't work to resurrect the victim anyway as those spells specifically don't work when the victim was slain by a death effect. So do Raise Dead or Reincarnate work on victims killed by Soul Drain or not?
| Elven_Blades |
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Assuming you have the rule copied exactly ( I don't know where to find this to look at) than you should be able to use any Raise spell to restore the slain character.
"The dead victim can resist having her soul eaten by making a (DC 17) Fortitude save; success means she is still dead, but can be restored to life normally."
- This indicates to me that any Raise spell should be fine.
"If she fails this save, her soul is consumed by the soul eater.A victim slain in this manner cannot be returned to life with clone, raise dead, or reincarnation."
- This is what imposes the Death Effect, preventing lesser Raise effects from working.
"It specifically calls out Raise Dead and Reincarnate as not working when the soul is eaten but implies that these spells work when the victim makes the Fort save upon dying"
- Yes, I think you have it right here.