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[smjjames]

How would they resurrect Durkon? He turns to ash upon death, and I am not sure whether Ressurection can work on an unwilling vampire.

In theory, resurrection can still work on atomized residue. At least that's what Will Save World for Gold did http://willsaveworldforgold.com/?p=2390  It just depends on how Rich Burlew decides to houserule it.

Edit: Ninja'd, it depends on how the author decides to play it.

[Lord Shonus]

Resurrection will explicitly work on a corpse that has been turned into an undead and then destroyed, will work with even a tiny bit of ash, and it would bring Durkon back, not create a living version of Durkula.

[smjjames]

His prophecy seems to indicate permanent death though, not resurrection at some point.

[pikachu17]

I think a gust of wind is going to push away his ashes, as that seems popular with the author.

[Egan_BW]

"You will next return to your homeland in a coffin", right? That's doesn't in any way imply permanent death. Or death of any sort, if you want to get extra rule-lawyery.

I think all of Durkon's prophecies at this point are fully fulfilled, and what happens next will be decided by fate.

[pikachu17]

But he wasn't in a coffin when he returned...

[Egan_BW]

That part wasn't shown, so he might well have.

[smjjames]

Except, he didn't actually return to his homeland in a coffin, so, the prophecy is unfulfilled.

But he wasn't in a coffin when he returned...

Exactly. Unless one wants to say that any wood construct is a coffin. Then again, why would a dwarf want a wooden coffin.

[smjjames]

That part wasn't shown, so he might well have.

Didn't he portal right to dwarven lands from the Godsmoot?

[Enemy post]

The Oracle only said Durkon would be returning home posthumously, not specifically in a coffin.

[Helgoland]

Doesn't post-humous mean 'after burial'? :p

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Prophecy confirmed descriptivist.

[Rolan7]

Heh, good point... Except technically no. The etymology is based on burial, yeah, but the dictionary definition is just after-death. Not too surprising, it feels correct to use the word for cremated people. Definition creep.

Ninja'd sorta heh

[Murphy]

Looking at that baby-sling-over-platemail, I had to come here and find this thread.

[Mathel]

Doesn't post-humous mean 'after burial'? :p

Maybe the author did not plan to rapid-vampirise him, when the prophecy was made. Normaly the victim becomes a vampire after 3 days in grave.