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[Bralbaard]

I've also considered doing THE WORM thing. That'd reset me right? Then I could just read another necro tome to become immortal again. I'd just like to more actively have my wolf man in settlements.

You mean the thing Bralbaard did? It would reset everything. That also includes all the skill you've gained, and your beard. Basically all you seem to keep is your name, race and maybe some other superficial stuff.
It will also forget about your age, so you will be immortal right away, no need for necro-tomes.

[Maloy]

Ohhhhhhh so I'd lose my lordship of Makbor too

Which means, since Pis is actively a rebel against my government, he would get control

interesting plot potential in exchange for my character finally freeing himself of a curse

[kesperan]

You don’t event get the name. You’re a nameless animated corpse.

I used dfhack to give Bral’s new body his original name.

I think it’s a last resort when your original soul is destroyed, for example being raised as a mindless undead instead of an intelligent one.

[Bralbaard]

I used this resurrection method in turn 104, but had stumbled upon it already in turn 89, in Bor's turn.

Here is the relevant part on how it works. I had forgotten the name got lost too, but indeed, it did:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The secret of life.
To restore someone to life, and grant them immortality, follow the instructions below.
Dfhack is only needed to make sure the character is playable after being revived, the rest of the mechanisms are strictly vanilla.

Before continuing first learn of the costs involved:
You will forget most of what you have learned in life, your skills, but also all your powers, (and the following remains untested, any necromantic arts you have learned. They are not easily retrieved either, as you will lose the skill to read. Your appearance and stats will be randomized. Still this is a small price to pay for the secrets of life.

Instructions:
These assume you have a character to help the character that you want to restore to life.
First:

1) back up your save. You are intentionally messing with bugs in the code, and it may well go wrong.
2) go to an area that animates the dead naturally. This will not work with player cast reanimation.
3) Place the corpse on the ground. If the subject is not dead yet you know what to do, but take care:
Make sure the body is in good condition, mangled corpses can not be raised.
Bodyparts can be raised, but if you return to life as a living detached hand, you will just bleed out in seconds.
4) When the body is placed you have to wait until it is animated by the surroundings. You have to wait in real time (sleeping or waiting will not do). This can take many in game days, but usually a few hours will do. It helps to overburden yourself and crawl, to make as much time as possible pass between each step. 
5) When the body comes to life as a zombie, you have to make sure it is playable, because the game will have forgotten it was a player character. Use the Dfhack bodyswap command to control the character, and swap back again.
6) now you can abandon the fresh zombie, and retire your helper character.
7) unretire the revived character. This has some weird bugs and glitches! The character will be in the list of old adventurers, but not in the place you expect, and with a false name, because the game has forgotten their real name. It should be the very last name in the list, which is usually partially copied from the name above, see the picture below:



8 ) after unretiring, rename your character.
9 ) check for obvious bugs or problems. In the list of adventurers above there is another strange entry "Señamatem from Cassastuta" that appears to take part of it's name from the entries above. In this case it is was an old pet of the helper adventurer. Somehow the game has also upgraded it into an active adventurer. It's best to unretire these characters and kill/rename them.

For reference, here are the DFhack stats of the character after it is revived. Some things like the age are untouched, and the character retains it's immortality from when it was an undead. Many other things appear to be randomized:

[kesperan]

Perhaps someone like Dikbut who has great mastery over memory hacking would know how to merge the fresh zombie body with your original soul / historical figure information?

[Maloy]

I've also contemplated, since I have no clue how to return bodies to bodiless people like Pis, putting together some sort of doom brigade to take on Pis in overworld mission combat via the final apocalyptic battle. Just thinking about it.

He'd have an overwhelming advantage in that scenario, but for me it could be fun to come up with in-game things that help tip the balance

I used this resurrection method in turn 104, but had stumbled upon it already in turn 89, in Bor's turn.

Here is the relevant part on how it works. I had forgotten the name got lost too, but indeed, it does:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The secret of life.
To restore someone to life, and grant them immortality, follow the instructions below.
Dfhack is only needed to make sure the character is playable after being revived, the rest of the mechanisms are strictly vanilla.

Before continuing first learn of the costs involved:
You will forget most of what you have learned in life, your skills, but also all your powers, (and the following remains untested, any necromantic arts you have learned. They are not easily retrieved either, as you will lose the skill to read. Your appearance and stats will be randomized. Still this is a small price to pay for the secrets of life.

Instructions:
These assume you have a character to help the character that you want to restore to life.
First:

1) back up your save. You are intentionally messing with bugs in the code, and it may well go wrong.
2) go to an area that animates the dead naturally. This will not work with player cast reanimation.
3) Place the corpse on the ground. If the subject is not dead yet you know what to do, but take care:
Make sure the body is in good condition, mangled corpses can not be raised.
Bodyparts can be raised, but if you return to life as a living detached hand, you will just bleed out in seconds.
4) When the body is placed you have to wait until it is animated by the surroundings. You have to wait in real time (sleeping or waiting will not do). This can take many in game days, but usually a few hours will do. It helps to overburden yourself and crawl, to make as much time as possible pass between each step. 
5) When the body comes to life as a zombie, you have to make sure it is playable, because the game will have forgotten it was a player character. Use the Dfhack bodyswap command to control the character, and swap back again.
6) now you can abandon the fresh zombie, and retire your helper character.
7) unretire the revived character. This has some weird bugs and glitches! The character will be in the list of old adventurers, but not in the place you expect, and with a false name, because the game has forgotten their real name. It should be the very last name in the list, which is usually partially copied from the name above, see the picture below:



8 ) after unretiring, rename your character.
9 ) check for obvious bugs or problems. In the list of adventurers above there is another strange entry "Señamatem from Cassastuta" that appears to take part of it's name from the entries above. In this case it is was an old pet of the helper adventurer. Somehow the game has also upgraded it into an active adventurer. It's best to unretire these characters and kill/rename them.

For reference, here are the DFhack stats of the character after it is revived. Some things like the age are untouched, and the character retains it's immortality from when it was an undead. Many other things appear to be randomized:

Wow! Very doable for some reason I thought this was a museum specific bug, but this looks reproducible on any world

You don’t event get the name. You’re a nameless animated corpse.

I used dfhack to give Bral’s new body his original name.

I think it’s a last resort when your original soul is destroyed, for example being raised as a mindless undead instead of an intelligent one.

that is concerning. I'd hate to have nobody interact with me because they think I am a zombie or not be allowed to hold any positions in civilization because I am not sapient in the game's eyes

[Bralbaard]

that is concerning. I'd hate to have nobody interact with me because they think I am a zombie or not be allowed to hold any positions in civilization because I am not sapient in the game's eyes

Right after being reanimated by the terrain, you are obviously a mindless zombie, but the *worm* fixes that for you when you retire-unretire. Your undead status will be gone, and you'll be the proud owner of a new fresh, wolf man body. People will love you.

All the other side effects mentioned before will still apply of course. I'm not sure if I've been able to teach Bralbaard to read again, actually. I guess I could do so by locking him in a library in fortress mode because that should train the skill, but in adventure mode it is not possible? I'd like to stay away from df-hacking it in. I'm fine with the holes in my memory, for now.

[dikbutdagrate]

Perhaps someone like Dikbut who has great mastery over memory hacking would know how to merge the fresh zombie body with your original soul / historical figure information?

Yeah, that's no prob. Just need the name of the character.

Never mind, just read B man's latest post.

Guess its the old dump body in a reanimating biome and see what happens trick?

[kesperan]

I'm not sure if I've been able to teach Bralbaard to read again, actually. I guess I could do so by locking him in a library in fortress mode because that should train the skill, but in adventure mode it is not possible? I'd like to stay away from df-hacking it in. I'm fine with the holes in my memory, for now.

You are correct - you cannot train Reading in adventure mode unless you are already Novice. I trained Moldath up to Legendary just through reading every book I could find in the open world, but it would be very easy in Fort Mode to make Bralbaard Hammerfishes II a scholar or scribe, and train him up in a library.

Yeah, that's no prob. Just need the name of the character.

Never mind, just read B man's latest post.

Guess its the old dump body in a reanimating biome and see what happens trick?

So, the original Bralbaard is called "Bralbaard Hammerfishes the Yawning" and he was killed and ressurected and had his hand chopped off, and an ear or two, and lost his soul along the way. The reanimating biome created a randomised new body for him which is called "Bralbaard Hammerfishes" - so it might be possible to fuse these two beings into one soul, since the original one is lost.

Although, that would be entirely up to Bralbaard since it's his character.

[Lurker Z]

Bralbaard's is named Hist_ID 72363. It's both in the game and in the XML, for those who care to look for it. My problem isn't lost souls, because you can always find them and they are tied to their original body's deeds and history, but binding them to a creature in a way that sticks. I tried binding a soul to a newcommer's in my fort some time ago, but when I saved, closed and opened again, the soul reset to the original body's owner.

[TheFlame52]

My last turn with Dreamypuzzled was rather anticlimactic because I failed to do the same.

[Travis Bickle 2]

Here is the save. I'll try to get a write-up out shortly.

[kesperan]

Aww, encased in ice? Climate change is a PITA!

Did you not fancy making a fort?

[Travis Bickle 2]

Aww, encased in ice? Climate change is a PITA!

Unfortunately, yes. A rather anticlimactic ending to a rather uneventful adventure.

Did you not fancy making a fort?

Perhaps next time.

[kesperan]

Looks like you’re up then Bralbaard!