Death

Death

• Upon death, you will awake in the Temple of Notre Dame. See 'help map'.
  • To walk back to Darkhaven Square: #5 s; e; e; se
  • The Halls of Knowledge (where you may have been initially exploring upon first entering the game) is then: #3 e, s; d
• If you die while under level 10, you keep all your gear and can just get right back to doing whatever you were doing.

If you die after level 10, your corpse with all your gear remains where you died. 
You must retrieve your corpse so you can get your gear out of it.

Corpse Status

Your corpse will lay on the ground and slowly rot. If it rot's completely, it is gone, all your gear is gone, and you have lost everything.

• Rot Time: About 24 hours
• Reboots: Corpses DO save across the daily reboot (6am EST)
• Crashes: Corpses MAY (should) save in the event of a crash.... no promises.

So, you basically have 24 real-world-hours to go and get your shit out of your corpse, and you should hope the game doesn't crash in that time period.

Useful Command: remains

This command will show you the room location of your corpse, and its status as it rots.

Corpse Retrieval

Commonly called 'CR', you might chat "can someone help me with a CR?"

• Option 1: Walk back to where you died, get your shit from your corpse
  • You are naked. Go buy a light first. And maybe a recall scroll. Ideally, get something so you can hide/sneak and have invisibility cast on you. You should save/quit/relog so that any mobs which were aggro on you drop aggro.
  • This can be a real fucking pain. You might need someone else to come along to kill any mobs in the way.

• Option 2: Have your deity bring your corpse(s) right to you via 'supplicate corpse'
  • Requires being devoted to a deity, and having sufficient favor with that deity.
  • This is easy as shit. There are only about 1% of rooms/areas that are 'no supplicate'.

(There's also an Option 3: Have an immortal bring your corpse, in exchange for Glory... but that's not something newbs would do, so forget about that)

How to Master Death

Death is simple, and easily rectified. You shouldn't be afraid to die. You should just be prepared correctly and it will be no big thang.

1. Devote to a Deity with very easy favor method (A'enari or Vl'aresch suggested for newbs)

2. Go visit them and walk in/out until you are at "praised" favor

3. Go explore and die

4. Do 'supplicate corpse' and 'get all corpse; wear all' a bunch to get all your shit

5. Immediately go back to the deity and re-favor back up to praised.

6. Return to Step 3.

As a NEW player, start there. Once you are more experienced, try some other deities and figure out how to quickly re-favor with them so you can die and supp corpse and re-favor quickly, then go explore and die as much as you want without fear.

Full Deities List

When you've decided that's it, you were never meant to marry, you might want to check out the table below which attempts to quantify all of the info known about Deities. For additional write-ups on each Deity please see Rodpedia

• Note: Where any Race/Class restrictions are listed, those mean the deity is restricted to ONLY THOSE races/classes so you MUST be one of those.

Deity	Theme	Race Restrictions?	Class Restrictions?	Prefers	Despises	Sigil Stat (+1)	Max Favor Resist	Max Favor Affect	Mid Favor Affect	Low Favor Affect	Gain Favor	Lose Favor
A'enari	Good	-	-	Devout	Evil/Neut, Drow	Int	Unholy	Scry	DetMagic	DetEvil	Visit, Bury Corpses, Help Others	Dig up corpses, Backstab/Circle, Flee, Visit Vl'aresch
Vl'aresch	Evil	-	-	Evil	Pixies	Wis	Holy	DetInvis	DetHidden	Unknown	Visit, Kill, Kill Pixies, Steal	Bury Corpses, Help Others
Bron'trel	Order	-	-	Humans	Half-Trolls,Thieves	Lck	Paralysis	DetHidden	DetEvil	Unknown	Kill, Kill Trolls	Kill Humans, Backstab/Circle, Flee, Visit LaChte
LaChte	Chaos	-	-	Evil/Neut	Dwarves	Dex	Drain	DetInvis	DetTraps	Unknown	Kill, Kill Dwarves, Thievery, Dig Up Corpses	Sac Corpses, Flee
Z'hyal	Sun	-	-	Devout/Neut	Evil, Vampires	Int	Fire	Fireshield	DetHidden	Infravision	Helping Others, Kill Vampires	Kill Humans, Steal, Flee
Gre'vos	Moon	Dwa,Elf,Hlf,Pix,H-Elf,H-Ogre,H-Trol,Gith,S-Elf,Drow,Gno	-	Evil/Neut, Vampires	Devout, Humans	Int	Acid	DetInvis	Unknown	Unknown	Kill, Kill Humans, Backstab/Circle, Sac Corpses	Kill Vampires
Mak'kor	Demons	Drow,Gith,H-Troll	Nep,Thi,Vam,Cle	Evil	Half-Elves, Clerics, Thieves	Con	Holy	Fireshield	DetTraps	DetHidden	Kill, Backstab/Circle, Dig Up Corpses, Offensive Magic	Sac Corpses, Flee
Bael	Death	Drow,Gith,Dragborn	Nep,Cle,Vam,War	Evil	Devout/Neut, Thieves	Str	Magic	Fireshield	DetHidden	Sneak	Kill, Sac Corpses, Dig Up Corpses	Killing Humans
Sarane	Feminism	-	-	Females ONLY	-	Wis	NonMagic	Protection	Float	Detect Evil	Kill, Kill Neanderthal, Offensive Magic, Backstab/Circle	Kill Harpies
Wirawyth	Battle	-	War,Ran,Pal,Bar	-	Drow	Con	Paralysis	Iceshield	Float/Fervor	Infravision	Kill, Kill Drow, Sac Corpses	Flee, Pick Lock
Estathius	Neutrality	-	-	Neut Gender ONLY, Human	-	Wis	Magic & NonMagic	Scry	DetEvil	DetMagic	Kill, Kill Undead, Sac Corpses	Kill Humans, Flee
Tempus	War	-	War,Bar	Wolves	Giants	Str	Paralysis	Berserker Rage	Fleetfoot	Unknown	Kill, Kill Giants, Sac Corpses	Kill Wolves, Use Magic, Flee, Die
Kardis	Sorrow	H-Orc,H-Ogr,H-Trol	-	-	-	Str	Pierce	DetInvis	Sneak	Unknown	Kill, Dig Up Corpses	Sac Corpses, Bury Corpses, Flee.
Adendra	Faith	Elf,H-Elf,Dwa	Pal,Cle,Dru	Elves	Evil, Trolls, Drow	Str	Poison	Protection	Resist POI 10%	Scry	Visit, Kill, Kill Trolls/Drow, Use Magic	Kill Elves, Flee
Shivvan	Sin	-	-	Evil	Good	Dex	Energy	Hide	Sneak	DetMagic	Visit, Kill, Backstab/Circle, Dig Up Corpses	Sac Corpses, Bury Corpses, Defensive Spells
Sh'Vath	Purity	Dwa,Gno,Pix	Dru,Cle,Ran	-	-	Cha	Drain	Protection	Fly	Infravision	Visit, Defensive Magic, Bury Corpses, Sac Corpses	Killing (No issue for archery/rangecasting kills)
Ghordhol	Wealth	-	-	Dwarves	Orcs	Cha	Slash	DetHidden	DetInvis	DetMagic	Bury Corpses, Steal, Kill Orcs , Give Ghordohl Gold*	Kill Dwarves
Keltas	Poor	-	-	Halflings	Goblins	Dex	Blunt	Invis	Sneak	DetEvil	Pick Locks, Kill Goblins	Kill Halflings
Kalerd	Summer	-	-	Pixies	Vampires	Con	Fire	Fly	Unknown	Unknown	Kill Vampires, Sac Corpses	Kill Pixies, Flee
Tirebaen	Winter	-	-	Vampires	-	Con	Cold	Fly	Hide	DetMagic	Kill, Use Magic, Sac Corpses, Backstab/Circle	Flee
Cawyn	Storms	Elf,H-Elf,S-Elf	-	-	Humans	Int	Electricity	Shockshield	Float	Sneak	Kill Human, Backstab/Circle	Kill Magicals, Flee
Sil-Galith	Mountains	Dwa,H-Trol,H-Ogr	-	-	Lizardmen	Str	Blunt	PassDoor	DetInvis	DetHidden	Kill, Kill Lizardmen, Sac Corpses	Kill Dwarves
Masefi	Wind	-	-	Pixie	H-Trolls	Dex	Electricity	PassDoor	Fly	Aquabreath	Kill H-Trolls, Flee, Flee Pixies	Kill Pixie, Die
Grishnakh	Orcs	H-Orc	-	-	Halflings	Str	Paralysis	Shockshield	Float	Unknown	Kill, Kill Halflings, Sac Corpses	Kill Orcs, Flee, Die, Backstab/Circle

• Additional Notes:
  • Estathius: Is not fooled by sex-change affects
  • Tempus: See 'Tempuran Slash'. Cast's sanc on you if you visit him at loved.
  • Shivvan: Gain favor by Visiting like A'enari/Vl'aresch but much harder to get to. Also, will steal your gold
  • Sh'vath: Gain favor by Visiting like A'enari/Vl'aresch, goes a bit higher to Cherished.
  • Ghordhol: Gain favor by Visiting and giving them gold. Approx 1m per favor level.
  • Kalerd: Gain favor by Visiting their Naos and examining the orb every 30-40 minutes.
  • Tirebaen: Gain favor by Visiting their Naos and examining the tureen every 30-40 minutes
  • Sil-Galith: Casts sanc, elemental shields, armor, bless, shield, and valiance on you if you pray to her ([See Here])