Where To Die

Quality of life for the Page of Reincarnation (the N'tormat page from Hallowed Concepts that sacrifices you to take you somewhere else). It shows where the page works and whether it will kill you, fixes two annoyances with getting and keeping the page, and adds two new places to use it.

Die or Not

• Page icon highlight. While you stand where Reincarnation works, its icon above the N'tormat changes colour, fading from green at the bottom to:
  • yellow at the top: the ritual works and nobody has to die (the Veil of Memory in the Soulbound Threshold)
  • red at the top: the ritual works by killing you (everywhere else)
• Hallowed aurora. The aurora of a hallowed shrine hangs above every place where Reincarnation works, so you can find them from across the map. Yellow if the ritual doesn't kill, red if it does. It only shows while you hold an unused Page of Reincarnation. During the first 30 seconds of a normal stage (when the page rerolls the stage) a sparser aurora covers the whole map, and it disappears when that window closes. Auroras fade in and out.

Kills you	Nobody dies
First 30 seconds of a stage	The Veil of Memory

Quality

• Reincarnation with the N'tormat. Picking up the N'tormat also gives you the Page of Reincarnation, if you don't have it yet.
• Recharged in the Soulbound Threshold. A page that changes the stage stays spent for the next stage too, so the page you used to reach the Soulbound Threshold couldn't open the way to Terminal Lucidity, and you needed two. Now it recharges when you arrive, and one page is enough.

Space and Time

Two new places where dying by Reincarnation takes you to the Soulbound Threshold:

Rocketship roof	The ritual on the roof
Planetarium final arena	Chat

They only work while nobody has entered Terminal Lucidity this run. (Prime Meridian needs nothing new: the game already has a zone at the altar in the False Son's arena, which leads to Terminal Lucidity; it gets its aurora like any other.)

No way back after the finale. Taking either of these places means Mithrix or Voidling is beaten, so the run doesn't return to normal stages: the portal after the Anima Harvester and the teleporter after Providence in Terminal Lucidity are replaced by a portal to Obliteration (A Moment, Fractured), and nothing leads out of Obliteration except the Obelisk. Obliterating always ends the run there: Beads of Fealty don't open A Moment, Whole (whose Reincarnation zone leads back to the Moon).

Soulbound Threshold	Terminal Lucidity

Re-entering the Soulbound Threshold. Defeating the Anima Harvester normally ends the soul-binding trial for the rest of the run. If you haven't entered Terminal Lucidity yet, the Shrine of Descent and the trial come back, so you can try again (this also applies to the game's own way in, not only to the new places).

Multiplayer

It adds no items, rules or networked objects, so vanilla players can join a modded host.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.elevated.WhereToDie.cfg, or in game through Risk Of Options (Mod Options → Where To Die).

Console command (open the console with Ctrl + Alt + ~):

How it works

• The game already marks the holder of the page with a "ready for sacrifice" buff while they stand in a working zone. The highlight reads that buff and the zone's behaviour (kill and travel, or only trigger an event).
• The host works out which zones are usable (without rolling the run's stage RNG) and sends their positions only to players who have the mod.
• The new places are ordinary sacrifice zones that exist only on the host, which is where the ritual decides where to go.
• The recharge removes the page's one-stage cooldown and turns the spent page back into a usable one, the same way the game does at the start of a stage.

Compatibility

• Requires the Hallowed Concepts DLC to be enabled for the run.
• The new places lead to the Soulbound Threshold; from there the run continues to Terminal Lucidity and/or Obliteration.