Category talk:Destroyed
I am beginning to doubt the wisdom of this. Putting deceased rather than destroyed next to a vampire who has been burnt to ash by sunlight is just inviting confusion. To properly understand the condition of Duke Gundar after the Feast of Goblyns or of a construct reduced to zero hit points is to use the term deanimated. And with additional knowledge as to how to finish off permanently one and the other and with the effort of applying that knowledge the two could subsequently be marked destroyed.
My entry for destroyed would read thusly:
Destroyed need not entail utterly annihilated. But destroyed is the utter ruin of a thing's or a creature's essence. A violin that is destroyed may be reduced to an unrecognisable pile of ash or it may be reduced to a recognisable pile of wood. Either way, it will never again be used by the hands of the violinist to play music. A construct deanimated by damage or a vampire deanimated by a stake through the heart is not destroyed. Nothing exceptional is required to effect their reanimation. The construct whose parts are put beyond all hope of repair is destroyed. A vampire who is reduced by sunlight to ash is destroyed. The deanimation of the living is, however, their destruction. It is reversible only through the extraordinary means of a raise dead spell. A life snuffed out is a life destroyed. A deceased human is a destroyed human. Destruction does admit of varying degrees of thoroughness however. The destruction of an individual can include not only his or her life but his or her corpse, putting him or her beyond the reach of vampirism or of a raise dead spell, and quite possibly beyond the reach of a resurrection spell. But there is still a wish spell for those determined to tempt the Dark Powers.
Cure 07:06, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Clarified a bit, and incorporated your text. I still think it best that NPCs be labelled as deceased, regardless of their monster type, but I'm willing to include deceased as a subset of destroyed. Good enough? -- Gonzoron 14:52, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
