I went with Calamity and the dragon mask
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A bit clarify: War for the West is HG not COG (comradelenin asked about COG). And it also has rape and incest so the “as long as” thing is not really true.
him asking about cog was obviously a mistake since mage reborn is also hg title…and no it doesn’t have rape and the incest part is very hard to find out - you will have to connect the dots between dream scenes…i am willing to bet whoever was reviewing that game didn’t catch up on that cause otherwise that part would have been removed alongside rape scene lol
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I meant the company itself not the label.
Hi,
Let us return to A Mage Reborn topic please.
Thanks.
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For code names I went with Koschei. Necromancer from Russian folklore. Fits a spiritist and it’s appropriate since his moniker is “the Deathless”.
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Get a load of this!:
I’m not sure I understand how exactly the resurection worked.
From what i understood from reading Thalia brought MC back but their body was not accustomed to living yet, and that the ritual puts some sort of toll on the resurected person, therefore Tahlia was suplying mana to Mc in order to lessen that effect and gradually fixing them.
But from reading the forum I gathered that basically MC is a walking corpse with their soul barely glued together, held only by Tahlia’s magic and it can’t be fixed. Can someone kindly explain it to me?
Also with so many people getting fire-related codenames, it would be fun to see other characters’ reactions to it, I went with Fuse.
More questions and rambling below, with spoilers ahead, click at your own risk :
Summary
In what state are people resurrected in?
It was weird to me that MC was resurrected standing up and not on some kind of altar. I find it hard to believe they would be conscious enough to keep standing straight, but that’s a nitpick I guess.
It seems that they pop back up in a state they were in before death with all their possessions. In Eli’s case, they just disintegrated with everything they had on them, but MC took longer, and even if they lost consciousness they must have been severely burned before actually dying. So if you are brought back in the state from the very moment you die, then MC would be not only burned but also be wearing charred rags or nothing left. I really wish MC was still burned after the resurrection, not 6th degree of course, but at least something to make them constantly aware of what happened and what price they had to pay for saving everyone. And wonder if it was even worth it.
It is said that Tahlia heals MC, is it from burns then?
It is treated like no big deal, just a little heal but it seems like she healed MC’s crispy condition with no trace of it left. Not to mention possible torture in the dungeon and the damage caused by overusing the phantasma (MC states in the dungeon, I think, that their body is destroyed). If that’s the case, she is a much better healer than Eli is ehhh… How about after Tahlia’s healing MC still have a bunch of burn scars all over, and it is Eli who slowly, throughout the book heals those? Then we have a connection to book 1 event, a physical representation of MC accumulated trauma, a chance for Eli to shine as a healer( hell yeah!, yes I’m an Eli fanboy), and a progression for MC by either gradually healing and coming to terms with everything or refuse to to be healed altogether and succumb to madness. Direct consequences of the previous book’s ending.
Another thing, I think the second book overlooks how much effect dying on a pyre would have on a person, I can remember maybe 2 times it is mentioned and it’s not really explored much in the demo. I know there will be more content in the book but establishing MC’s state at the beginning of the book is crucial to essentially reintroduce us again to the character after the finale of the previous book. Cos remember that from MC’s perspective they were just pulled out of the fire, and yet they walk around fine, buiseness as usuall, even flirting away like their skin wasn’t melting 5 minutes ago. Not to mention that the characters don’t acknowlagde what state MC could be in when they should be most aware and so much more careful, especially if they want MC to willingly join their side. I imagine a normal person would be very considerate to someone who was severely burnt not to mention painfully killed. I don’t really see the consequences of burning in MC’s character, not even a mention that they could be scared of fire from now on. What if they can’t even use magic that well because they are scared they will set themselves on fire? They get panic attacks from seeing fireworks but nothing from the normal fire they died in. Such untapped potential for trauma *chef’s kiss.
Also if Eli was resurrected under the same conditions as MC why are they working independently from Arcadia when we first meet them? Why would Tahlia let them go on their own for years when they are supposedly a great asset to Arcadia (supposedly, because they can’t heal that well)? Seems kinda weird.
My theory is, that Tahlia is lying about how the resurrection works. That she is not able to cause Eli the same pain as MC. All those healing sessions seem to me like a perfect occasion to put some sort of a curse on MC under the pretense of healing them. That would mean she learned her lesson after Eli bailed and will not allow another resurrected mage to run free. Or Eli was not worth it since Tahlia heals better anyway.
I’m also confused about the rules around phantasma.
So WhatsHisFace bound MC to 4 by the use of some seals ( more on those later). That implies they were, let’s say, locked up inside MC. But from book 2 and the forum, I get the impression that a phantasma can make multiple contracts with multiple mages, provided they fill the requirements, and they are just lending them their power (in exchange for I don’t know what). But Earthsworn was inside that knight guy, and not in some separate dimension, they even would talk all the time and could feel each other’s emotions. On top of that Arcadians set up a transfer so the Earthsworn would not be lost, and the BBEG at book 2 demo said phantasma dies along with its user. Tahlia even says they lost many phantasma since Arcadia fell so they should be unavailable, but the psycho twins in book 2 set up a contract with one phantasma that should have died along with its user when Arcadia fell. And coming back to Eli, why would Tahlia let her do her own thing and risk her death when it is equivalent to losing their phantasma forever? You know, the most unique one there is??
So what’s the deal here? Are phantasmas like gods in D&D, who sit in their dimensions and lend mortals their power or are they residing inside them as Earthsworn did? You’re doing me a confused, Book.
And on the topic of being confused what are those seals actually for? In book 1 this happens early on:
So are those seals working overtime as mana ducts? Why are they damaged if MC didn’t use phantasma for years at this point? Or are they damaged because they want to get out? MC goes near mana exhaustion many times after that point in both book 1 and 2 and the seals never get mentioned again in that manner. In this situation, MC just solo some bandits and is disabled for a year but later fights monsters and archmages and gets no damage to those seals, what’s up with that? Were those bandits the Deamon King and his generals hiding in secret or something?
And to clarify, I don’t mean that I want everything to be spilled out at the beginning. That I need to know everything there is to know, otherwise I won’t like it. Secrets are fine, even super fine. Creating mysteries and meaningful reveals is great, I would never criticize that. I just don’t like when the information I am getting is contradictory and when characters do not acknowledge that there is something going on or is being purposefully hidden from them. Like for example MC not being very interested in Tahlias involvement in Sister setting up an invasion, or MC’s capture by WhatsHisFace, or why she didn’t rescue Sister from MC, or MC and others from WhatsHisFace, or even care bout Tahlia reading their mind all the time while being smug about it. As the story goes and as MC learns more and more about their new situation there is more and more stuff they should be invested in discovering and I don’t feel from them any desire to know anything, not to mention to hold anyone in Arcadia in any way responsible. After MC says to Tahlia that Eli died because of her she might as well just shrug, like “that happens, meean” and MC just rolls over and accepts that. If main character don’t care neither will the reader.
This summary function is pretty great, I feel like I set up a trap for everyone 
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My MC finally decided on Poena for a codename, the (Greek) personified spirit of retribution, vengeance, recompense, punishment and penalty for the crime of murder and manslaughter. Goddess of vengeance and retribution seemed fitting.
It was either that or Ramboina: “I’m coming to get you, Murdock… er, Leon…” Poena sounds better, anyway…
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My MC went with “demon” since that’s what they were being called when they were alive.
And also because my MC is nothing if not on the nose. Hence why they also where a shroud/veil like a corpse or mourner 
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Calamity fits what I am aiming for.
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I just realized, you could totally just use your actual name as a code name and get away with it. Everyone would just assume you got it from that one mage who got burned on a pyre and never make the connection. Unless they knew you personally and could ID you, but what are the chances of THAT happening?
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Tan you! That trap was super effective! Now I’ve spent 15 minutes of my life reading every thing you wrote. XD
Jokes aside, I’ll answer what I do know. Here I’ve set up a trap for you in return:
Summary
On the author’s Tumblr page, he said that the issue has more to do with the MC’s soul constantly facing rejection and hostile mana from the earthly plane. He did not specify why that is the case. Perhaps this is true for all resurrected people, including Eli. But only the author can really confirm this. The resurrected people are not “normal” humans, but they are not “walking corpses” either, because they weren’t resurrected in their dead bodies.
Originally, the resurrection spell used Netherworld spirits to construct a “body”(vessel) for the souls of the deceased to inhabit temporarily, so that whoever resurrected them can spend some time, or final moments, with the deceased before truly letting them go. And I imagine the temporary body/vessel dispersed back into the spirits who helped made it at the expiration. Some mages have been known to keep the resurrected alive for months until they died from mana exhaustion, expiring together with their loved ones.
But over time in the ancient past, the Arcadian mages have worked on improving the resurrection spell to the point that it manages to recreate a human body for the resurrected, that they bleed, and can pretty much live like a normal human…as long as their bodies receive enough mana supply to counter the rejection and the attacks of hostile mana from the earthly plane on their soul. That is the version Tahlia used to bring the MC (and Eli) back to life: The Song of the Dead.
As for what state a dead person is resurrected in, the author said it is pretty much right at the moment of their death. I imagine this is so that the resurrected can retain pretty much all of their memories up to their last moments. Obviously, the body of the resurrected needs to be in “perfectly healthy” condition in order for the resurrection to work at all. Can’t bring a deceased back to life with their body suffering from 6th-degree burn, or having a blade sticking through their heart now, can we?
As for Tahlia’s healing, it was simply her passing her mana through the MC’s body if I’m not mistaken. She might be able to perform basic healings, but nothing more. She even mentioned that if she could heal all of the MC’s injuries, including their mana ducts, she would have definitely healed their scar/broken knee/brain damage (from the Bandits Camp incident) already.
As for the phantasmas, they are the avatars of the many different universal, conscious energies that are intelligent, and these energies are the sources of the many arcana magics. I’ve never played D&D, so I can’t compare the phantasmas with the D&D gods. 
As for the MC’s seals, there are two types of seals placed on them. The first ones are six arcana seals the mad scientist Thaubal Altinier (who you called “WhatsHisFace”) carved into the skin on their arms in experiment. The other set are tattooed seals the Salantir Duke’s mages placed over those first ones to seal the phantasmas off from the MC to prevent them from using them and subsequently damage their mana ducts. During the time of the Parami-Salantir War, those tattooed seals have pretty much faded all away, which is what allowed the MC to use their arcana(s) again after so many years.
As for what caused the MC’s mana ducts to fry and forcing them to take a year-long hiatus in Leaf End at the start of the game, that is something I haven’t figured out myself. Perhaps it is from using too many powerful spells in succession to kill the bandits who killed Aunt Bess’s son?
Otherwise, I agree that there should be an option for our MCs to be traumatised and/or to have pyrophobia due to the fiery execution if we so choose.
But yes, I do agree that the summary function is pretty neat. 
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Amazing job! I’m excited to see what you do next
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Thx for explaining that stuff, I doubted anyone will bother reading my rambling.
You said the body needs to be in a perfect condition to be resurected but MC still has that knee ingury along with the scars on their arms and so does Eli. So if that was the case shouldn’t they be as smooth as a baby bottom one resurected? Because if they retain their old scars I don’t see why not keep non lethal injuries as well or al least scars from them. And if the spell recreates the body, how does it know to recreate the persons earthly posessions as well? Like Eli’s necklace that should be destroyed along with everything they had on them when they selfdestructd’. I know it’s gold but I doubt they took it with them to the afterlife hehe.
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My MC decided on “Ghost” because that’s pretty much what he is now. He may be living and breathing but he’s somewhat a former shell of what he was, his perceptions on life in general have changed and he hopes to feel forgettable so at any time he can just disappear and vanish. Not that most people will let him do that but yeah. I think I’ve always been fond of this name when it comes to codenames in general and wish I could explain it better especially the motivation for having my MCs codename be this but it’s all I got for now. 
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Also in terms of Eli’s necklace I believe it wasn’t gold it was made with a material much stronger than that. Which is why it still looks in pristine condition and hasn’t rusted. I can’t recall what the material was called but it isn’t destroyed easily at all, not completely sure if the possession was recreated or if Eli went back to where she died and grabbed it herself. And in terms of scars it varies on what happened to your character, my character still has a scar on their… right eye? If I recall correctly. It’s there, hasn’t healed. Y&F even commented on it at the start of book 2 but it’s barely been mentioned. Unless you romance Y then she mentions it again later I believe.
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You can also have brain damage, but the point I was makin is that MC’s body still has old scars and injures therefore it is not in perfect condition, even more threfore, they could gain new ones from the fire they died in.
And if the super expensive, supergold necklace was recreated, can they do that more but without a troublesome mage attached to it? Acradia has the power to destroy any country’s economy by floding it with a surplus of expensive materials xd
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When I said in, quote unquote, “perfectly healthy” condition, I meant the best condition the body of the deceased was in before they died or was killed. Of course, not saying that it isn’t nice to get a brand new body that is as smooth as a baby’s bottom. XD
Well, I guess I forgot to mention an important aspect of the resurrection process in my previous post. My bad. But before I answer it, I’ll have to give an analogy to help you understand something better.
You know something called “Cloud Data Storage” that many of us use nowadays? It’s basically online memory disk with nearly endless space for us to store our files, games etc.
Now. Imagine the universe is a computer and has something similar to this “Cloud Storage”, except it has infinite data storage space and it contains all the knowledge, information, and events that have happened, are happening, and will happen, as well as all the living things, including humans, that have lived, are currently living, and will live in the whole universe, plus all the possibilities. It is called the Arkashic Record (in Hinduism and Buddhism), or the Blue Space (in Judaism).
It is from accessing this storage of information that Tahlia managed to “find” and recreate both the MC’s and Eli’s bodies in their best conditions before they died, including their old scars or injuries as well as their earthly possessions like their clothes and jewelry.
Now, whether or not there is an afterlife, it’s never specified. 
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OK, I get it, so basically she restored MC’s save file 
But if that is true and MC is not burned, wouldn’t that mean they shouldn’t remember their execution at all? Since they were “loaded” in a state before that happened? Not only execution but also their time in the dungeon and the fight with Ante since then too they damaged their body? Or maybe that’s why the resurrection puts such a burden on MC, because their soul is from a save file after the execution but their body is from a pre-burned one, and they are out of synch?
If Tahlia gets access to those universal records of all living beings, could she theoretically bring back someone in a state years before their death? Or even as a child? What if she wanted to bring someone who is not even born yet or MC from a different timeline when Arcadia didn’t fall? Because you said, " plus all the possibilities". That’s waaaay to overpowered IMHO anyway since with access to those records you can know the future.
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Yep. You got that right.
You have a very inquisitive mind, and I like that. I suppose we are kindred spirits in a way.
Actually, the MC’s body wasn’t damaged during their time in prison. The Parami prison guards only fed the MC with some gob with poor nutritional values just to keep the MC alive until the day of their execution. The MC’s body was withering away from malnutrition, but definitely wasn’t damaged.
But I think you’re on to something there. Combining a soul from a “saved file” post mortem and a body from a “saved file” moments before it was irreparably damaged or killed could be what causes the resurrected to constantly face rejection and hostile mana from the earthly plane. Because that combination is, as you said, “out of sync” which causes a lot of “bugs” in the “simulation/game” of life.
Of course, the author never explained the issue this far, nor has he confirmed this, so for now we can only speculate.
Maybe she could, but I don’t think it would serve her and her causes. Since the ritual takes a little over a year and lots of efforts and energy to complete. Say if she restores the “saved file” of the MC as a child, how can a wee child MC help her fight her war? Especially without the memories and experiences of the latest, adult version MC? Or if she loaded the MC’s saved file from an alternate reality where Arcadia isn’t destroyed, that version of MC will be utterly confused and would likely just resent Tahlia for bringing them into this version of reality.
As for knowing the future, maybe she can forsee certain major events that can’t be changed like natural disasters. But otherwise, future events are not set in stone, so I don’t think anyone can really “predict” the future with 100% certainty.
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