A couple questions about Scholar, faeries and blindness.

[Annana]

Regarding raise, I think this is more a game gimmick instead of actual lore. (Otherwise we'd simply raise the dead)
Imo, the actual "Raise" spell doesn't exist.

Raise as it exists restores players from the KO state that we enter upon hitting zero HP. We don't die, we just get knocked out. Likewise, Return activates upon us falling unconscious, warping us back to our home aetheryte. Granted, not everybody gets pulled back all the time lorewise.