Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20140614015650/@comment-12599067-20140617032238

(That is indeed how it works. One has to die and come back to life to be a Briarheart. Unless one finds a way to keep the subject partially alive, which may or may not be what the Hagravens do, given that Briarhearts don't simply reanimate after being slain. If they did, they'd technically be liches, not Briarhearts, unless Briarhearts are a kind of lich.

So to recap, if they die and come back to life, they are a reanimated corpse, or Briarheart. If they don't die in the process somehow, they are technically liches, but they would reanimate after some passage of time. So it can be assumed they are reanimated corpses that do not return to life at any point. At least, that's how I take it.)