Xanathar's Guide to Everything introduces the Ceremony spell. One of the options is to perform a wedding for 2 or more creatures:

Wedding: You touch adult humanoids willing to be bonded together in marriage. For the next 7 days, each target gains a +2 bonus to AC while they are within 30 feet of each other. A creature can benefit from this rite again only if widowed.

How is the term "widowed" defined for the purposes of this spell?

For reference, the Mirriam-Webster definition suggests this refers to individuals whose spouse has died. However, when dealing with a world where creatures can return from the dead, and marriage can be a magical (rather than legal) concept, this may have some odd ramifications.

I can imagine some peculiar loopholes, which would lead to questions like:

1. If the marriage is polygamous, and only one spouse dies, do all of the other spouses count as being widowed?

2. Is there a maximum number of times a creature can qualify as being widowed? Or can they go Henry VIII style if their spouses keep dying and they repeatedly get remarried?

3. If a spouse dies, and later comes back to life, are the other spouses still considered widowed?

Xanathar's Guide to Everything introduces the ceremony spell. One of the options is to perform a wedding for 2 or more creatures:

Wedding: You touch adult humanoids willing to be bonded together in marriage. For the next 7 days, each target gains a +2 bonus to AC while they are within 30 feet of each other. A creature can benefit from this rite again only if widowed.

How is the term "widowed" defined for the purposes of this spell?

For reference, the Merriam-Webster definition suggests this refers to individuals whose spouse has died. However, when dealing with a world where creatures can return from the dead, and marriage can be a magical (rather than legal) concept, this may have some odd ramifications.

I can imagine some peculiar loopholes, which would lead to questions like:

1. If the marriage is polygamous, and only one spouse dies, do all of the other spouses count as being widowed?

2. Is there a maximum number of times a creature can qualify as being widowed? Or can they go Henry VIII-style if their spouses keep dying and they repeatedly get remarried?

3. If a spouse dies, and later comes back to life, are the other spouses still considered widowed?

Xanathar's Guide to Everything introduces the Ceremony spell. One of the options is to perform a wedding for 2 or more creatures:

Wedding: You touch adult humanoids willing to be bonded together in marriage. For the next 7 days, each target gains a +2 bonus to AC while they are within 30 feet of each other. A creature can benefit from this rite again only if widowed.

How is the term "widowed" defined for the purposes of this spell?

I can imagine some peculiar loopholes, which would lead to questions like:

1. If the marriage is polygamous, and only one spouse dies, do all of the other spouses count as being widowed?

2. Is there a maximum number of times a creature can qualify as being widowed? Or can they go Henry VIII style if their spouses keep dying and they repeatedly get remarried?

3. If a spouse dies, and later comes back to life, are the other spouses still considered widowed?

Xanathar's Guide to Everything introduces the Ceremony spell. One of the options is to perform a wedding for 2 or more creatures:

Wedding: You touch adult humanoids willing to be bonded together in marriage. For the next 7 days, each target gains a +2 bonus to AC while they are within 30 feet of each other. A creature can benefit from this rite again only if widowed.

How is the term "widowed" defined for the purposes of this spell?

For reference, the Mirriam-Webster definition suggests this refers to individuals whose spouse has died. However, when dealing with a world where creatures can return from the dead, and marriage can be a magical (rather than legal) concept, this may have some odd ramifications.

I can imagine some peculiar loopholes, which would lead to questions like:

1. If the marriage is polygamous, and only one spouse dies, do all of the other spouses count as being widowed?

2. Is there a maximum number of times a creature can qualify as being widowed? Or can they go Henry VIII style if their spouses keep dying and they repeatedly get remarried?

3. If a spouse dies, and later comes back to life, are the other spouses still considered widowed?

Xanathar's Guide to Everything introduces the Ceremony spell. One of the options is to perform a wedding:

Wedding: You touch adult humanoids willing to be bonded together in marriage. For the next 7 days, each target gains a +2 bonus to AC while they are within 30 feet of each other. A creature can benefit from this rite again only if widowed.

How is the term "widowed" defined for the purposes of this spell?

I can imagine some peculiar loopholes, which would lead to questions like:

1. If the marriage is polygamous, and only one spouse dies, do all of the other spouses count as being widowed?

2. Is there a maximum number of times a creature can qualify as being widowed? Or can they go Henry VIII style if their spouses keep dying and they repeatedly get remarried?

3. If a spouse dies, and later comes back to life, are the other spouses still considered widowed?

Xanathar's Guide to Everything introduces the Ceremony spell. One of the options is to perform a wedding for 2 or more creatures:

Wedding: You touch adult humanoids willing to be bonded together in marriage. For the next 7 days, each target gains a +2 bonus to AC while they are within 30 feet of each other. A creature can benefit from this rite again only if widowed.

How is the term "widowed" defined for the purposes of this spell?

I can imagine some peculiar loopholes, which would lead to questions like:

1. If the marriage is polygamous, and only one spouse dies, do all of the other spouses count as being widowed?

2. Is there a maximum number of times a creature can qualify as being widowed? Or can they go Henry VIII style if their spouses keep dying and they repeatedly get remarried?

3. If a spouse dies, and later comes back to life, are the other spouses still considered widowed?