Talk:Raishan (character)/@comment-33973700-20171215150948/@comment-1412148-20190114071258

That's not how wizards work; generally they prepare spells from a large list in their spellbooks. NPC casters like Raishan will sometimes have a shorter, set list of spells, but still usually have more spells than those they use in combat. In theory, it's possible she had the spell Clone and used it to come back like Delilah, but in practice I think that is unlikely. If a spell she had access to (like Clone) could have cured her illness, she would have used it. Instead, she was forced to find out how to become a dracolich, which she didn't learn until immediately before she died.

On a real world note, I don't think Matt was anticipating that Vox Machina would succeed in killing Raishan, and his scenarios in the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting were written before the fight took place.