The resurrect spell does not seem to have any effect.  Interesting the shaman's "reincarnate" buff *has* worked, but any time a new minion of mine gets critically hit off the field by bad luck they're down and out until I end the fight, go home, and let them sleep off their injuries.  

Or perhaps I'm just misunderstanding what the spell was supposed to do?  

doubt it, issue is still in as of now, It is particularly interesting because one of my peeps was killed in battle and it ended before I could revive them, they were the same as my mc which had been targeted for revival and had no change. Long story short, I think something like death is set to off in the code and with no dying, chars just get grievously injured and ejected from battle instead, this causes resurrect to fail because they are not actually dead.