Villain who started studying healing magics for nefarious purposes.
The sharp inhale when all the functions of a body starting up again coalesce into a living again is his least favourite part. It’s dramatic. It’s unpredictable and therefore a shock every time. He doesn’t jump at it, but it’s still a bother. He snaps his book shut—an unpredictable shock to the freshly reinstated mind that had just started breathing again—with its series of incantations, and trades it again for the knife.