My guess: Return to body does not mean the body is able to sustain life. Sure, she died, but someone had to repair her before it all fell apart or she wouldn’t have anything worth controlling. These Vampyr seem to have found another way to do the repair.
It’s like chopping up a D&D (2E) troll? The biggest piece regenerates? iirc.
Of course in this case the biggest piece would have to be able to sustain life, eh?
I do think theres a small amount of regeneration. For example, if you died from a knife wound., your body would regenerate just enough tissue and blood to keep you alive. But you’d still be very, very hurt and might die again without help. IDK what would happen if your head got cut of or something like that. Someone might need to repair you before you could return to your body. In cases where there really is extreme damage, you’re probably not coming back at all without some kind of magical healing or major surgery first. And who does surgery on a dead body?
To be clear, this isn’t an explored phenomena. People in Yeld don’t come back to life. Its unheard of. People from our world visiting Yeld are rare. We know there are about a dozen in Yeld at the moment (including Marah, the Prince and these two Vampires, and thats probably a high number. And of course, people from Yeld don’t know any of this. A few might know of other worlds. Most don’t. Most have never even visited other towns.
Who does surgery on a dead body? Well, frankly, with how technologically advanced Yeld seems to be (not much), I wouldn’t be surprised if everyone who can actually do surgery belongs in those few who know of other worlds, so …
I mean, surgery is pretty ancient. Humans have been doing it for as long as we’ve been humans. Yeld definitely has surgery (as well as a college of medicine), although any complicated or advanced surgery or medicine is going to be very limited and probably only in the few remaining cities.
Its never been explicitly mentioned in the comic, but it was hinted at back in season 5 when Modest went into her own head and met the version of the Prince that had been implanted there. Its more fully (but not completely) explained in the Yeld RPG that the Prince is from AN earth, and has been traveling form alternate reality to alternate reality for hundreds (or thousands, or millions) of years searching for an entrance to the Arsenal of Winter.
Being: “crazy resilient and heal very fast” is pretty much regeneration, eh? I said “it’s like…” not that it is. Big difference, I think.
The question was about dismemberment. I see that as: would your cut-off arm also heal into a clone of you? Or would you have to stick it back on for it to be functional again? Or would the largest piece re-grow the lost parts?
In old D&D, if you cut a troll into 4 pieces, would you get 4 trolls? The eternal question, eh? 😸
You’d do surgery on a corpse to reanimate or bring it back to life. Makes sense to me. But if magic exists, why not use that to augment our surgical techniques?
Remember that death is a gift. It means the spirits/hearts of those who die are not content within the world, and find no rest therein, and therefore seek beyond the world and its confines. And as the years grow long and Time wears, even the Gods themselves will come to envy this gift, that of liberation from the physical world, and the inevitability of loss and sorrows that must come with this existence within the world.
You are expected to love your mortal life, but see it as something temporary. Of course, that doesn’t explain why it’s so !@# short. Seriously, I’m sure I would be more ready for dying if it would come after several more millennia.
I’m just proud of Marah for realizing this. I would have needed like 2 days and several conversations ten it being spelled out. I can be slow on the uptake
Is that why she is still kicking after getting sliced like that?
There has got to be a way of putting them down permanently, like incineration.
That sounds like you want Marah to die.
Yeah. Also why Jake survived getting drowned by Mermaids.
My guess: Return to body does not mean the body is able to sustain life. Sure, she died, but someone had to repair her before it all fell apart or she wouldn’t have anything worth controlling. These Vampyr seem to have found another way to do the repair.
Vampires are crazy resilient and heal very fast.
That’s quite a plot armor there, Jake!
What if the body is dismembered in Yeld? (and 100 other questions from an experienced DnD player)
Who knows?
It’s like chopping up a D&D (2E) troll? The biggest piece regenerates? iirc.
Of course in this case the biggest piece would have to be able to sustain life, eh?
Noone mentions any regeneration.
I do think theres a small amount of regeneration. For example, if you died from a knife wound., your body would regenerate just enough tissue and blood to keep you alive. But you’d still be very, very hurt and might die again without help. IDK what would happen if your head got cut of or something like that. Someone might need to repair you before you could return to your body. In cases where there really is extreme damage, you’re probably not coming back at all without some kind of magical healing or major surgery first. And who does surgery on a dead body?
To be clear, this isn’t an explored phenomena. People in Yeld don’t come back to life. Its unheard of. People from our world visiting Yeld are rare. We know there are about a dozen in Yeld at the moment (including Marah, the Prince and these two Vampires, and thats probably a high number. And of course, people from Yeld don’t know any of this. A few might know of other worlds. Most don’t. Most have never even visited other towns.
Who does surgery on a dead body? Well, frankly, with how technologically advanced Yeld seems to be (not much), I wouldn’t be surprised if everyone who can actually do surgery belongs in those few who know of other worlds, so …
I mean, surgery is pretty ancient. Humans have been doing it for as long as we’ve been humans. Yeld definitely has surgery (as well as a college of medicine), although any complicated or advanced surgery or medicine is going to be very limited and probably only in the few remaining cities.
We’ve just never seen any of the nicer parts of Yeld in this comic.
Wait, even the prince is from our world? Which part do I have to re-read?! I totally forgot that!
Its never been explicitly mentioned in the comic, but it was hinted at back in season 5 when Modest went into her own head and met the version of the Prince that had been implanted there. Its more fully (but not completely) explained in the Yeld RPG that the Prince is from AN earth, and has been traveling form alternate reality to alternate reality for hundreds (or thousands, or millions) of years searching for an entrance to the Arsenal of Winter.
Being: “crazy resilient and heal very fast” is pretty much regeneration, eh? I said “it’s like…” not that it is. Big difference, I think.
The question was about dismemberment. I see that as: would your cut-off arm also heal into a clone of you? Or would you have to stick it back on for it to be functional again? Or would the largest piece re-grow the lost parts?
In old D&D, if you cut a troll into 4 pieces, would you get 4 trolls? The eternal question, eh? 😸
You’d do surgery on a corpse to reanimate or bring it back to life. Makes sense to me. But if magic exists, why not use that to augment our surgical techniques?
And at last an explanation for why she’s still alive! I had wondered about that. Voldemort would be totes jealous.
Is that from the Yeld RPG rules? I’m guessing with it being child-friendly, no permadeath would fit.
It is, although its always been my intent.
Now then… just how reckless is Marah going to get now?
How eager to experience pain YOU are? She already experienced death once and doesn’t seem it was something she would be THAT eager to repeat.
Remember that death is a gift. It means the spirits/hearts of those who die are not content within the world, and find no rest therein, and therefore seek beyond the world and its confines. And as the years grow long and Time wears, even the Gods themselves will come to envy this gift, that of liberation from the physical world, and the inevitability of loss and sorrows that must come with this existence within the world.
You are expected to love your mortal life, but see it as something temporary. Of course, that doesn’t explain why it’s so !@# short. Seriously, I’m sure I would be more ready for dying if it would come after several more millennia.
70ish years doesn’t seem like enough.
Meanwhile the gods in my fantasy world: “lol nah we’re taking that sweet sweet soul juice we don’t care where it comes from”
The remaining half of them will learn to be careful about visitors from other worlds after they do one mistake.
Yeld and Earth are connected, but visitors from worlds which are NOT connected (at leat not before) tend to be powerhouses.
I’m just proud of Marah for realizing this. I would have needed like 2 days and several conversations ten it being spelled out. I can be slow on the uptake