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I was skimming through the Psychic Powers section of the Rule Book earlier, and I happened across Life Leech under Biomancy. At first glance, I thought "Well that spell's is no good except for on the Psyker, or on a model with two or more Wounds because a model dropped below one Wound is removed as a casualty, and the majority of the models with my Psyker only have one wound". Then I noticed something..."regains a Wound lost earlier in the battle". Now, I know it's taking RAR, but to me, that sounds like you could raise a one Wound model back from the dead. Considering my Psyker is palling around with a group of Chaos Terminators, bringing one Terminator back from the dead per Psychic Phase is kind of...*Mr. Burns fingers...nasty! Am I interpreting this right, or is there a superseding rule that says No one can be brought back from the dead, etc? I'm feeling a little verklempt. Talk ammongst yourselves.

A model that does not exist on the tabletop can not possibly regain " a Wound lost earlier in the battle"

A dead model is no longer on the table, so you can't target it with the power.

My joy, she has been shattered.

Just curious, but how would you handle a psyker with multiple or only a singe wound losing his last wound due to perils while casting this power? You still resolve the power even if the psyker is going to die.

I see it going one of two ways, 1) Completely resolve the power first including gaining of the one wound, then losing said wound due to perils. This leaves the multi wound psyker alive and the single wound psyker dead. Or 2) Resolve perils first including taking a wound. Then resolve the power but as the psykers are at zero wounds they are dead and they have no permission to come back.

Obviously I need to re-read the psychic phase to see exactly when I need to resolve the perils.

You resolve the Perils first (as per the Psychic rules), you then resolve the power as the Psyker is dead no models in the target unit are within range and LoS of the firing model so you can not do any damage and thus can not regain any wounds.

Perils is resolved prior to resolving the power, so you'd do nothing since you can't draw LoS to the target.

Indeed; a lot of people seem to default to the fantasy resolve first, perils after approach, however in 40k it is explicitly the other way around.