by MagicManICT » Tue Apr 07, 2020 7:31 am
You don't need to bury the body before you inherit from an ancestor. Simply make a new character (on the same account) after a death, and the runestone marking the grave will give a list of ancestors to inherit from. When you get back into the game, you can bury the body as soon as possible to regain some extra points. If you're still at the newbie stages, though, you will likely earn more back in the time it takes to decay than you lost all together from the death.
If the body is lost for any reason, say a drowning occurred and nobody retrieved the body from the water before it decays, you're stuck. There is the [urlhttp://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Ancestral_Worship]Ancestral Worship[/url] skill that will allow you to Lament the Departed and make up for it, but again, it's likely not worth it if you've not made it past the newbie stages of character growth. Note: there are a few other circumstances where a body can be lost/destroyed, though I can't name them off hand; bugs are possible, but need documentation to get fixed. Also, some players will collect other bodies just to make a cemetery (which encourages mandrakes to spawn).
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