#(this one is me pulling at straws to get Kash back because WHYYY)

[captainsparklefingers]

Actually thinking about it a bit, and I admit that I did need to check the wiki because my memory is faulty, the only instance of resurrection magic being done was with Vex...and it was Kash who did it.

(we all know the reason it worked was because of Vax, but Kash started the ritual.)

Pike said at the time that she'd never done resurrection magic before.

Wouldn't it be...appropriate, or at the very least, interesting, if the first time she does it successfully is on the one person who's been shown to do it before?

Maybe I'm grasping at straws because I don't want Kash to be gone (because he gets a happy ending in stream and it feels so WEIRD, this particular change). But Pike has thrown away her holy symbol, has started to realize the power of her blood (whatever that may mean at this point, we still don't know), has successfully used her vestige through faith in herself.

Pike bringing back Kash as her first successful resurrection, setting in place that it can be done and that she can do it, could be a good way to set up bringing Percy back. Because we know he's not gonna stay dead, but resurrection magic isn't completely established in TLOVM the way it was in stream (thanks to dnd mechanics). Grog's death by sword soul swallowing was cut. Scanlan isn't dead (yet), he's not gonna be able to be used as a test subject here. Using resurrection magic on the many faceless and nameless dead won't have as much of a story impact.

But bringing Kash back could.

So maybe that's why he had to go down. To set up how Percy can come back, by bringing him back first.