On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Alex Nixon wrote: >No need to make it so complex- perhaps it's the easiest explanation: >Morrolan told Blackwand not to do anything to Loraan's soul in the first >place. Perhaps Morrolan just killed Loraan normally, allowing him to >undergo whatever he needed to do to become undead. While that cannot be ruled out completely, I think that if Loraan had been killed normally, he would have been revivified normally, well within the necessary timeframe (he did have retainers and servants who were still alive, who could have seen to that). > I would assume that he needed to go through the Halls of Judgment >to do so- after all, that's how Sethra became undead. > That's how Sethra became undead, and presumably how some other souls became undead, but is that how *all* undead become undead? I am not sure that that question has been definitely answered. Perhaps it is possible for a sufficiently powerful wizard, skilled in necromancy -- which Loraan most certainly was -- to bootstrap himself to an undead state without the intervention of the gods.