i know he’s important to our character, it tells who we are and holds meaning unlike the other deaths in the game because of the resurrection system. BUT, we could have a quest with the fox as a final boss and at the end having the option to either keep him as a follower or sacrifice him to get ratau back or something else. I think that IF we get a way to get ratau back, we would have to sacrifice something else or go through a long quest to make it fair. As for the character développement, we could still make the fact that we killed him painful depending on ratau’s reaction : he could leave, not want us as a disciple/son anymore, convince everyone that we are the worst etc like find something that would make it hurt and keep the importance of the death.
Moreover we were ready to kill him just to have rewards, i think sacrificing something else/doing everything possible to get him back would also be interesting for the character and would be logical, it would teach him a lesson that he didn’t need so far because of how « easy » it was for him to just kill people for quests/rewards etc. since he knew he could bring them back (we could morally explain why he was sentimentally able to kill ratau that way).
anyway just a thought, i want my father back 
#we should be able to get ratau back
lean bronze
lean bronze
THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE
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