Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-34385655-20190604152939/@comment-25603146-20190813025918

Zain's had resistance specifically against the two of Causality and Death Manipulation since the moment he had powers, on an 11-D scale apt to ward off the biggest bads in the entire verse, due to the Tiphareth. It's the reason he keeps popping up when whacked to death like some kind of Soulsborne protag, and the reason Samael isn't able to just decide he's popped to death from the other side of the Paroketh before the story ever starts- as the Archetype of the Hero's Path, "death" isn't a constant that can really be applied to him in the conventional sense. It's like trying to kill the idea that there are heroes in the world, that someone, somewhere will have the courage to rise above their circumstances to inspire the world in which they live.

The Gold Experience Requiem treatment's not going to cut it, I don't think.