Conversive Resurrection

Conversive Resurrection
Kain (Soul Reaver; in the center) resurrected the Sarafan Inquisitors, the mightiest vampire hunters in Nosgoth's history, turning them into the greatest heralds of his vampiric empire.
Power/Ability to:	Convert others into different creatures upon resurrection.

"One must keep his friends close, Raziel, and his enemies even closer. Can you not grasp the beauty of the paradox?"

― Kain (Soul Reaver)

The power to convert others into different creatures after resurrecting them. Combination of Conversion and Resurrection. Not to be confused with Corpse Conversion.

Also Called

• Resurrection/Resurrective Conversion/Transformation
• Transformation/Transformative Resurrestion

Capabilities

Users can raise the dead into a different type of creature (demons, vampires, werewolves, humans, etc.) or (rarely) a hybrid, usually the one they are themselves part of. While the revived creatures retain most of their original traits, they also undergo a physical and mental transformation, gaining additional abilities and traits relatives to their new nature, as well as a sire bond to the user.

Applications

• Conversion
• Resurrection

Variation

• Demonic Resurrection
• Divine Resurrection

Associations

• Mystical Conversion
• Blessed Resurrection/Cursed Resurrection- This transformation after resurrection can be seen as either a blessing or a curse.

Limitation

• Unless user have other ways to control the newly risen/transformed being is free-willed.
  • If they raised enemy or someone against their will, their troubles just got worse.
• May be limited to conversing each creature only once.
• Those that passed away by Eternal Rest Inducement cannot be revived
• Conversion Negation

Known Users

• Hector (Castlevania)
• The Elders (Charmed)
• Yonaga (Luger Code 1951)
• God (Supernatural); resurrected the then-human Castiel back into an Angel, specifically a Seraph.
• Kain (Legacy of Kain Series)
• Evil Ernie (Chaos!/Dynamite Entertainment)
• Ho-Oh (Pokémon); resurrected three unknown Pokémon into the three "Legendary Beasts."
• Kobali (Star Trek Voyager)
• God (In Another World With My Smartphone); resurrected Touya Mochizuki, a human, into a demigod.
• SCP-1715 - Online Friend (SCP Foundation)

Known Objects

• Ascension Ceremony (Devil May Cry 4)
• Nethersphere (Doctor Who); resurrects all dead humans into Cybermen
• Skeleton Transformer (Heroes of Might and Magic 3)
• Evil Pieces (Highschool DxD)
• Heart of Darkness (Legacy of Kain)
• Mark of Cain (Supernatural); resurrected Cain and Dean Winchester as a demon.
• The Mold (Resident Evil)

Gallery

After being shot through the head by Dante, Sanctus (Devil May Cry 4) is resurrected by the Ascension Ceremony as a demon.

Any creature placed inside the Skeleton Transformer (Heroes of Might and Magic 3) will be killed and then resurrected as a skeleton, with the exception of dragons which are resurrected as bone dragons.

Evil Pieces (Highschool DxD) can resurrect deceased humans as devils...

...such as Asia Argento.

The Heart of Darkness (Legacy of Kain) wields the power to restore vampiric unlife...

...and was used by the necromancer Mortanius to resurrect Kain as a vampire.

Castiel (Supernatural) was killed by Lucifer as a human, but was resurrected by God shortly after as an Angel/Seraph

The Mark of Cain (Supernatural) can resurrect the bearer as a demon, specifically a Knight of Hell...

....such as Cain...

....and his descendant, Dean Winchester.

When three Pokémon were resurrected by Ho-Oh (Pokémon) they turned into Raikou, Entei, and Suicune.

Evil Ernest Fairchild (Chaos! Comics) is a master of the dead. Easily able to convert those whom he slaughters or reanimates into his Dead One ghouls.

Videos

Supernatural - Dean becomes a demon - S9E23 - Logoless-2