on a related note, I was woopin up some nifelhiem in the mega game I am playing, and I controlled their capitol - on what I can only assume was the cut off for imprisoned pretenders get let free, the crone I had killed off a few turns prior came back with the message:
? So-and-So has broken free!
or something like that.
do killed pretenders get a free come-back on that month when imprisoned pretenders normally get released?
(the other pretender, a great mother, I offed couldn't even be called back, on account of me sending her to the inferno - to be baked. she should come back as a statue

)