Also, we don't know for sure that it happens when we die. It only happened once when we died,
and it happened again while we were still alive.
Not sure what you're referring to when you say "it happened while you were alive."
Regarding death in general, I'll simply say at this point that there is a very high level of
gameplay and story integration here. Go read episode
episode 18 again and think very carefully about what happened
after you died. Dying is a thing that happens. It is not an invisible non-event. It's a phenomenon that is integrated into gameplay. There are a number of implications to that that I think most of you have not considered, and a few that you probably don't have enough information to reasonably guess. For example, consider the present situation with Divayth. If you tell him he can kill you without consequence, there is
absolutely no way he wouldn't ask for a demonstration. What if, hypothetically...you explain that when you die "the world resets." And what if, hypothetically, Divayth finds this fascinating, and is smart enough to lock you in the dungeon for a couple days before killing you, hypothetically resulting in a "game load" event to a point
after having been imprisoned rather than before? Do you then end up locked in hundreds or thousands of iterations of Divayth killing you over and over trying to figure out the secret of your immortality?
I'm not saying that would happen. But consider the implications.
Or, hey....here's another scary thought: remember in
episode 18 when you died, you
did not "vanish" or "restore" immediately. You were floating over your corpse for a while, watching what happened before reverting to two episodes prior. Think about how faction standings work. There's no "invisible gameplay mechanic" whereby npcs "magically know" your guild affiliations. Rather, guild marks are intregrated into gameplay in a way that npcs are aware of. So...hypothetically what happens if say...somebody with really good magic vision is able to
see your non-corporeal form hovering motionless over your body? What if they happen to know the soul trap spell? What if it works?
Again, I'm neither confirming nor denying that such a thing could happen. And I don't want you guys to be so scared of death that you hide in a cave. But I'm fairly certain that there are implications and possible consequences to the death phenomenon that most of you have not fully considered. I advise you to...without hiding in a cave...take very seriously the idea that dying could potentially be very bad.