>I mean someone whose body isn't available to be revived - but whose soul >wasn't killed. Anything is possible when you're imagining sorcery, but there are no extent examples of that sort of mediumship; nor are there any mentions of such that I can think of. I'd suspect that if it was easy to speak with the dead that there would be more necromancers in the world. As it stands, Loraan considered Aliera's captured soul to be a treasure worth betraying the Empire for. From Vlad's description of his laboratory, he had gone to some great lengths to setup a communication apparatus. If you could just kill a Teckla and then cast a spell to talk to his now-dead soul, then the soul of a random Dragaeran wouldn't excite him like that.