Talk:Swords of Darkness/@comment-68.197.79.224-20180710015811/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180710191221

Nonsensical.

It makes no sense in terms of Zurrernorn's abilities and motives for them to survive. It was also necessary to hand their bodies over to the authorities in E-Rantel to maintain Ainz's cover.

So basically you'd have to throw that entire arc out of the novel to have them survive Clem's attack.

On the other hand, Ainz could have had Nazarick raid the E-Rantel morgue to recover the bodies, and rez them later for experimental purposes. But only Ninya wasn't undeaded (which poses problems for rezzing), and the recovery of the bodies of Clementine and Khajit (a higher priority for info security) would have closed off an important later plot development (which may be indefinitely deferred at this point, it was last even mentioned tangentially in Vol 10, I think).

Anyway, it would wreck things to try and have them survive Clem's attack, but it would have been possible to have them sign off on completion of their job before Clem abducted Nfirea. That wouldn't have really been her style, and it would have made the arc less character significant, but they would have just gone their way and basically never shown up again (like in the WN).