For the knights, the most prestigious honour would be acting on the righteous commands of the master that they ever so respected. In their current circumstances, none of those could be applied. The command that the Empress had issued was simply a matter of survival. Nevertheless, that fact that it violated one law, established thousands of aethras agone, was a point worthy of criticism.
In this realm, constituents, or any individual or group for that matter, were forbidden from reviving a ruler whether they were the current or the former. It was believed that a ruler should only govern a nation once in the lifetime that the deities had bestowed to them. Furthermore, the act of reviving the dead was frowned upon by virtue of its connection with Necromancy. In this era, the Necromancers were the recluse of the society. It's almost always that they would get scrutinizing gazes from people if their identities were revealed.
