speaking of death

[teefal]

Yesterday we ran across Mary Blood Axe who had clearly died and returned to the bindstone.  She was hamming it up about a Drow attack, and being half-delirious, etc... good RP.  As we responded to her, we wanted to say, "Mary, let us accompany you back to your grave," but initially kept it to, "You don't look so good. How can we help", etc.

Zerpa was just updating her character journal and wanted to write about my own, later, encounter, that killed me.  She didn't know if you can talk about "death", etc.

So ... do people in the game know about death and bindstones and the soul mother, etc.  When you see someone half-transparent, should you say, "I'll bring you to your grave to pray?"   Is this game mechanics, or all valid in character?

[Serissa]

I think it's valid to talk about one's death and the resulting traumatic condition as a real part of the world.  Then there is "true-death", which would be what happens when the Soul Mother claims the last tenth of your soul. and you are gone, gone, gone.
  For example, a character your character strongly dislikes is waiting to get over the debilitation caused by death:  "Gee, it's a shame it wasn't the true-death."
  Serissa

[Gaunt]

The whole deathsystem and bindstones is actually worked out pretty nice in the history of Layonara so why not talk about death and bindstones?

What i'm wondering is that the graves, are they actually just OOC representations of your lost soul or is there IC actually a grave erected magically at the place you died?

[LoganGrimnar]

would be cool if they put like a shade there, and you talk to it to recover... this could be like a bit of your soul or somthing