[Admiral_Aorta]

How is a unique effect that exists nowhere else unthematic? "Their bone glaives are holy and filled with the power of the Awakening God, draining the strength of anyone wounded by them. " There's no reason that it wouldn't still affect gods that have been brought back, afflictions stay after death as well(unless you have an immortal or recuperating pretender which I assume is what you have, given that you say your pretender has no afflictions).