Kineticist Greater Elemental Whispers, Wysp, Living Battery question.

[Reksew_Trebla]

So if your Improved Familiar Wysp created with the Greater Elemental Whispers talent uses the Living Battery ability of a Wysp, can you still bring it back (in a new body) using the Greater Elemental Whispers clause of saying you can pay the price to replace it?

It says you manifest a new form for your elemental friend, implying it is the same entity, but the Living Battery ability says “if the wysp uses this ability, its death can’t be prevented, and its life can’t be restored by any effect less than true resurrection, miracle, or wish, even if such an effect can normally revive an outsider”.

So which takes precedence?

[Pan, definitely not a Kitsune]

This is tricky. On one hand, wysps are explicitly mentioned in the Greater Elemental Whispers talent, and it states "If your improved familiar dies, you can still contact its voice in your mind and gain the Alertness feat, but you can’t cause it to manifest. If you pay the usual costs for replacing a familiar, you manifest a new form for your elemental friend."

On the other hand, the Living Battery ability isn't exactly a standard death, and explicitly rules out resurrection.

Specific may trump general, but it's not clear which is which here.

I'd allow it to be restored as usual. It's not like there's a mechanical difference between giving the old one a new body or getting a completely new one.