Most Valiants don't even get Hunts until after they awake, Syr is just a special protagonist.

A brief, crooked smirk reaches Syrlya's face at Lambert's assertion, and he sits up a little. "Using a lot of his magic against him. He was using souls of the dead to fuel his army, so when I died it was a way back out."

By killing a monster, but the alcohol is starting to muddle Syr's focus at an increasing rate and he figures trying to explain the traumatizing amnesia and soul searching and the technicalities of resurrection... well, that's too much of an explanation for right now.

"It isn't possible, normally. Were he not abusing the realm of the dead..." Well, Syrlya wouldn't still be standing here.