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== Tabletop Games ==
* Goddess [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Eilistraee Eilistraee] in ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'', killed along with [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Qilue_Veladorn Qilué Veladorn] whom she possessed. Even "lesser" powers like her may run multiple avatars. But then, possession ain't the same as avatar, so it would be stretched, but not too much—if not the circumstances of ''Qilué's own birth''. Elué Silverhand was killed while possessed by Mystra, whom this accident neither deterred from acting immediately to save unborn Qilué, nor even lowered in [[Divine Ranks]]. This played out in 5th ed D&D and the Second Sundering, which saw Eilistraee's return to life, and in Ed Greenwood's own [https://web.archive.org/web/20170828103504/http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19841&whichpage=22#476639 explanation of what happened].
* Anyone and everyone in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''. No, seriously, ''everyone''. This is a setting where [[Unreliable Narrator]]s are endemic (making it somewhat difficult to determine if they actually died in the first place), where the [[Sufficiently Advanced]] technology allows individuals to live as long as they damn well please, where the nature of [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|the Warp]] can make death a minor inconvenience, and where this has repeatedly occured before, characters dead as disco appearing later no worse for wear.
** [[Word of God]] has stated that characters will not be killed off as they were before, as not only does it upset the [[Status Quo Is God|state that the storyline has settled into]] and also make it a pain to knit together planned story arcs, people do genuinely get attached to characters and don't want to have them consigned to "historical battles". [[Crack is Cheaper|Oh, and it's silly to kill off characters you still make models for]].
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