Quote Originally Posted by Zevox View Post
I was under the impression that being KOed in a battle was not the same as being killed, unless you had a total party wipe. Thus why your allies are revived (albeit with 1 hp) after a battle even if you don't use a revival spell or item. Heck, thus why revival spells and items work at all, yet you can still have drama from certain story events.

Aside: you should probably spoiler those, well, spoilers. Unless you intend for us to be able to freely discuss spoilery events, in which case adding a [spoilers] tag to the title would be appropriate.
I think partly, it's gameplay and story segregation. But, those are, at the very least, kinda workable reasons.

Done.