The world is hostile place, and it happens again and again that an adventurer dies. As you already noticed, death is not permanent in this world, however it still presents quite a lot of problems, and not the smallest is often that poor character gets new body in the city of Midgaard, which can be quite far away from the place of death. With raise dead, priests can mitigate this problem. Raise dead spell, as it\'s name suggests, simply raises killed character back from dead, so he can continue fighting quickly. However, it doesn\'t restore any lost experience, nor health. This particularly means that raised character is in dire need of healing to prevent another death right away. Also please note that raising from dead by this spell requires that character\'s soul is still bound to his body via means of life protect enchant. If a character dies without having life protect, he cannot be raised via this spell.

See also: resurrection, rebirth