To die

To die means the loss of life of the respective character. Characters can die in one of the following ways in the world of the dragons:

- Through the decrease of the hit points to zero or below together with a announced deathblow
- Through the decrease of the hit points to zero or below and after an absence of healing of 10 minutes
- Through a successful execution of the guild skill “assassinate” together with an announced deathblow

Exception: Characters which own the ability “regeneration” can’t bleed to death, therefore they can’t die because of the absence of healing. If a character dies according to the criteria mentioned in “To die“ he is dead.

After a character died according to the criteria mentioned in “To die“ he will lay for additional 5 minutes at his position (additionally to the 10 minutes of “To die”) and has to go directly after this period Out-Time to the limbus (crossing the arms – see also at chapter “Game technical declarations”). At the moment of entering of the limbus the character is In-Time again. As the character is dead and is insubstantial he can not execute any character skill except of read/write and calculate. This includes also combat events. If he arrives at the EXIT of the limbus he has entered again the realm of the dragons and the character is alive. If he doesn’t succeed he is definitively dead. (See also at “Definite death”)


The limbus

The fight of the dragons once cost to many mortals their lives. Thereafter the dragons decided that on their festival the death shall not overtake any fighter. But the death isn’t that easy to get rid of and therefore he created the limbus to keep some influence over the state of affairs.

This means:
Characters that die in the world of the dragons outside of the limbus or the public ritual circle will be drawn to the limbus (the player goes after 10 minutes, when the character has died, directly to there); where with a little luck and skill he will get back his character’s life.

Comment: This way of going back to life shall not be misunderstood as a “revival”!


Definite death

The definite death according to criteria mentioned at “To die” can overtake a character in three different ways.

- To die inside of the public ritual circle
- To not reach the exit of the Limbus
- Decision of the player to let his character die.

If a character loses his life according to the criteria at “Definite death” he is definitively dead. The player can’t play this character any more!

Comment: If a player decides to let his character die, besides to special circumstances in the world of the dragons, he is not forced to bring his character back to life. If a player decides in favour of this he does not go to the limbus but gives his character card and all belonging gaming material to the game masters of the ritual circle.

Remark: If the character has died, the new character will be created inside the orgaplex.