Ashes

This is the worst thing that can happen to a character in the early Wizardry games of the Llylgamyn Saga. If a character's status says "ashes", he is not only dead, but his body has been incinerated. While a character with a "dead" status can be resurrected by various means, usually by casting the "Di" spell, or by letting the priests of the Temple of Cant do the job, only divine intervention can raise a character from the ashes. This can be achieved by the "Kadorto" spell or, again, in the Temple of Cant. Raising a character from the ashes is quite a bit more expensive than ordinary resurrection. Success, however, will provide the character with fully restored hit points. Failure, on the other hand, results in the character being quite literally "lost" - his file will be wiped by the program.

A character usually turns to ashes after a resurrection has failed, although there might be evil dungeon traps that turn a character to ashes instantly.

A player might develop nasty feelings towards the priests of Cant when they had just been well paid for a failed resurrection AND a failed raising from the ashes. However, success of "Kadorto" and raising seems to be linked to the character's luck.