Twiceborn

[fungalreason]

Will the death spell "Twiceborn" bring a mage back if he dies from old-age induced afflictions?

Is there any trade-off to coming back as a wraith-mage (can't remember if that's the right name)... like reduced spell paths or anything?

[Ironhawk]

Dunno if it works for old-age death.

Coming back as a wight mage means that your mage will be undead. The benefit being 0-encumbrance and the weakness being suspectibility to anti-undead spells. You dont lose any magic paths tho

[Ewierl]

Bear in mind that you don't *lose* your afflictions when you get reborn, so someone who's died of old-age-induced disease will still be in a bad way when he's reborn.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

You may keep your magic and experience, but you lose any skills you had such as stealth.

[MaxWilson]

IIRC it doesn't heal any afflictions though, so if you let him die from old age he may accumulate a couple of afflictions from the disease that kills him. May be better to send him to the front lines to die quickly.

-Max

[Kohme]

As I recall, Twiceborn will bring the mage back if killed by disease, without losing any paths, experience or afflictions - meaning that a diseased mage left to die at peace will be at 1 HP when reborn.

I usually cast Twiceborn on all Grand Thaumaturgs when playing Broken Empire, and when they get disease I just send them off to die alone without any items to get them back with as little damage as possible. Of course, a Twiceborn mage is just as good of a researcher as a living one, even with 1 HP.

IIRC, being undead also means that the mage doesn't cost any upkeep.