Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20161204112754/@comment-31113156-20170124011109

Ripett wrote: I'd like to point out that reanimating the dead is already an integral part of the game. There are Revival potions and Simon, Qum and Carina all have powers that can bring dead companions to life. Granted, you probably need to be "recently deceased" in order for those to work and not dead for decades like Wendis but we do have the ability... That type of revival isn't the same thing, keep in mind merely sleeping at the inn will "revive" characters who are "dead" in that manner. In combat we can assume you just get knocked out, not killed.

I very much doubt Wendis somehow ascended to divinity on being killed, or was a divine being prior even to that (and as such wasn't really "killed"), there is no real indication or hint towards that at all as far as I'm aware.

As for Wendis somehow being absorbed in a way that's different from all the others, it's possible but doubtful, given Simon's description that she was simply torn apart. Keep in mind what we know about the soul shards; namely that they can absorb each other (and by extention, probably other souls as well, Simon's soul itself being "entangled" with the soul shard and that's with him offering strong resistance) So it stands to reason that Wendis' soul had been absorbed, but unlike Simon who is very much alive and was the one doing the absorbing Wendis would have been killed. I mean again, it's possible but it seems like a rather arbitrary thing and if it really had that big of an impact I'd imagine Robin of all people would have been able to tell, given how closely she's been interacting with that side of Simon's soul.

Honestly, I think it's just going to be, if anything, that Simon's soul shard comes from the entity that killed Wendis, the implications point towards it anyway, and Simon will learn this truth which will have some character development based around that, not because there's some fragment of Wendis or that she can be revived, but because he's using the same power that took his wife from him, and that power is now part of him. Seems like it'd be quite the struggle to move past, and it wouldn't need further nonsense like reviving the dead or Wendis suddenly being literally divine.