Not necessarily. After all, the process is shown to be a difficult one, and so it's possible they tried and failed. Or perhaps he knew he would become undead, and left instructions to be left alone. Just possibilites. Alex ----Original Message Follows---- From: David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> >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). _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com