Quote Originally Posted by Archwizard View Post
Well, the canon of PotD has Nybeth mentioning that Necromancy and White Magic both share the same inability to "truly" resurrect the long dead, with necromancy only being able to animate their empty shells.

However, there is nothing to say a necromancer could not revive someone who fell recently before their souls passed into the Lifestream, in the same manner as a white mage.

Similarly, D&D classifies resurrection magic as a form of necromancy, and even WoW gives their necromantic class the ability to raise fallen allies from the dead.
But this is Final Fantasy, a series with a long history of making it clear that raise doesnt raise the dead, it revives from KO.
That's why it's called KO and not Dead.