Seeing that the circle of Schillers surrounding him had no intention of leaving, Osiris finally said:
"...The Scale, the Scale used for judgment! And the feather used to determine whether the judgment is passed—that is a token of a great being..."
"I once made a deal with a mysterious being beyond mortal comprehension. When I placed the feather on one side of the Scale and the hearts of my followers on the other, if a heart was heavier than the feather, he would meet death. But if his heart was lighter than the feather, death would not accept him, and he could naturally be resurrected."
Schiller understood what Osiris meant. Put simply, resurrection did not truly bring a dead person back to life; it merely borrowed the power of Death, one of Marvel's Five Creator Gods.
As everyone knew, all things in the Marvel universe went to the Death Realm when they died.
Through his deal with Death, Osiris intercepted the souls of followers bound for the Death Realm and subjected them to a so-called judgment. If they failed, their souls continued on to the Death Realm, and they died. But if they passed, the Death Realm rejected their souls. And being rejected by Death meant they were still alive—so they came back to life.
In other words, resurrected followers were not reborn. They simply had not managed to die.
"I told my followers that as long as they were devout enough and fought bravely for me, they would have a chance to be reborn after death. That would make them fight harder, fear death less, and kill more enemies on the battlefield. That made the mysterious being called Death happy, which was why we made the deal."
"And that so-called judgment process was also that mysterious being deciding whether