Originally Posted by Hachina
Can't you just cut under the jaw or in the neck then, and just sew back the artery and/or skin together? Shouldn't be that hard in a world with magic. I'm not a surgeon but doesn't seem impossible to me.


Yeah, maybe if you completely disarticulate the mandible from the skull. 😂
How would you know where to perforate the skull? You would need to go exploring for the tadpole, which conceivable could move around the brain cavity to escape your attempts to extract it.

Skill mangling the corpse past the corpse well past revivification.

I don’t think this is really worth putting too much thought into, though. Again, resurrection is a gameplay feature of forgotten realms which rarely makes a lot of sense in terms of diminishing stakes.