"I don't know of anyone who's died within the past fifteen days but there are people who have died much more recently than the past hundred and fifty years whose bodies are mostly intact."

"Well, I like to know a little bit about people before I raise them, and as I mentioned that spell is expensive, but I can prepare up to three resurrections a day, starting tomorrow. -possibly I should explain how spell tiers work." He does so, including that Resurrection is a seventh-tier spell and he gets two of those and one eighth-tier per day, not counting domain slots that can't be used for that. "I usually charge for spells - most clerics do, if they're not casting to advance their gods' interests - plus Resurrection requires an offering; diamonds are most reliable for it. - I'm not expecting anything for the conjuration or healing, that was to my own benefit as much as yours."

"Money isn't a problem, although I think you will want to talk to the other sects for some of this..."

"Certainly. Because they'll be covering their own resurrections, or is it more complicated than that?"

"And because they'll know their own people better, if you want descriptions."

"All right. We can work on arranging that today - I'd prefer to start with noncombatants, if that's possible, until I know more about the war. I'll want to know more about your undead situation, too, but that seems like a less urgent problem."

"Two of the people I'm thinking of didn't die in the war at all." 

"That sounds like a good place to start. Is this a good time to tell me about them?"

"Their names were Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan. They died--well, in the mess that happened after the war."

Nod. "Were they involved before that? I'm mostly concerned about unintentionally starting the war again."

"That's unlikely as long as you don't resurrect anyone surnamed Wen, although raising Wei Wuxian would have its own set of problems. The Wen sect was the most powerful of the five great cultivation sects, but they became arrogant and attacked the rest, who were forced to band together to destroy them. Wei Wuxian took in refugee civilians from the Wen Clan, but he was using dangerous and untested magic and things went very badly."

"That sounds straightforward enough, all right."

"Wei Wuxian's body was destroyed utterly."

Raafi nods. "That doesn't matter, for True Resurrection - I actually don't even need very much for the resurrection spell that I can do now, a lock of hair taken from the body is fine, or ashes from a pyre, if you do that here. And the political situation might have calmed down in five or ten years, especially with the casualties returned to life; we'll have to wait and see."

...Nod. 

"No ashes. No hair. There was nothing. But five or ten years is acceptable." Is infinitely better than forever, which is what he thought was on offer. 

"Mmhmm. If your undead problem is widespread, it's good news, that way - I expect it makes it dangerous to travel, and if I can clear it up, that should be impressive enough to get my god's attention. Maybe not enough for an entire tier, that takes a lot at this point, but a good piece of one."

"It would be extremely rare and unfortunate for a ghoul problem to make travel difficult for long without one of the sects addressing it."

"Well, good news in some sense, if not in this one. I may be able to solve it permanently, though, which will still count for something. And there are plenty of other things I can do - even just exploring by myself helps, it's just slower."

"...Solve it permanently?"

"I can consecrate an area so that no undead can rise there. Doing it permanently on a large area will take time and be expensive, but it's probably worth the effort even if you have it basically under control - the difference between a low risk of meeting a walking corpse and no risk is significant, to most travelers, in my experience."

"What are the relevant magnitudes of 'large area,' 'take time,' and 'expensive.'"

"It takes several spells, and supplies - if I'm focused just on that I should be able to consecrate an acre in a week or so, with enough powdered silver; I'd have to check my notes on how much, but a considerable amount."

"One acre is unlikely to make a considerable difference. Unless you could do it to something like the Burial Mounds..."

"It does make sense to start where most of the corpses are."

"It's not just the number of corpses, the place is very cursed."