Hardcore League

Hardcore League is a limited time event, open for 90 days, starting August 16, 2019. You can play on a special perma-death server with some additional rules.
 * Available for VIP only.
 * At this point, it is planned as a one-time event.

Rules and mechanics

 * Basic rule: If you die, you're dead, drawn away to "the nether realm". No Raise Dead, no self-raises, no res shrines, no res cakes, no Jibbers, no nothing, thank you for playing, this character is done on the Hardcore League server. Period.
 * Deaths from quest-specific mechanics (such as The Shroud part 4 death) and /death command do count.
 * Once your character is sent to the nether realm, they will not be able to access the shared bank on the Hardcore League server.
 * Death is Announced: World Broadcasts are sent when higher level characters die.
 * All characters start at level 1, even iconics.
 * You cannot enter a dungeon if your level is more than 4 levels higher than the base challenge rating. ("Base" means the challenge rating on Normal difficulty.)
 * You cannot transfer to this server, but you can transfer your characters (even dead ones) to normal servers. This transfer is free.
 * Hirelings and the DDO Store are allowed. The goal is to be as close to live servers as possible.

Rewards
Players can get exclusive cosmetic rewards for participating / meeting certain goals (favor, reaper XP, level).

Mortality, the Rewards NPC: At various places in the game world you can find a new NPC named Mortality. Mortality will grant cosmetic rewards to characters that have passed specific benchmarks. These rewards, once unlocked on a character on the Hardcore League Season server will be available for all characters on that account on all servers. When you reach a milestone, you have to talk to Mortality to claim your reward.

The rewards are account-wide, available on all servers.
 * 1750 favor: Eyes of Darkness cosmetic
 * 5000 favor: Bloody Footprint cosmetic
 * 10 reaper points: Tattered Cloak cosmetic
 * 20 reaper points: Cloak cosmetic
 * Level 20: Blood Reaper pet (Blood Wraith

Leaderboard

 * Talking to the Mortality NPC also allows you to see top 100 performers in two categories: Total Favor and Reaper XP
 * The top 100 winners of the two ladders will be immortalized in the Hall of Heroes with a plaque featuring the character names.
 * When a character dies, their place on the leader board is lost.
 * If you would like to Reincarnate in a way that would reset your Favor, keep in mind that this reset to 0 Favor will likely push you off of the leaderboard.
 * Any character who reaches at least Level 5 and survives on the server will be recognized in The DDO Chronicle newsletter.