Frankly, yes it has always been a bit of a "gray zone" that people tend to skirt around with vagueries (players and even DMs alike). However saying ICly as a 100% factual statement that you "come back instantly to life" is just silly.
What it boils down to is that at the end of the day, NWN is a video game and thus respawning exists. Yes, we could go the route of a more "hardcore" server and make it so that there is no respawning, but the staff has felt that such would simply unnecessarily dampen some of the "fun of the game" as it were.
So really, leave it vague that "death doesn't seem to quite have the same hold over folks on Amia as it does elsewhere in the Realms," sure. But to outright say, "Na na na boo boo, I'll just come back to life instantly!" it just silly and should be avoided.
Especially when referencing dungeon spawns as well; granted some of that can be accounted for with "repopulation" (eg. kobolds make more babies, bandits draw new people into their gang, etc.) but again it boils down to a game mechanic. The amount of bandits or illithids or anything else that are found in 95% of the dungeons IG go through even in one or two runs by a party, outweighs any realistic repopulation. This isn't because Amia somehow magically has a baby growth rate 100x greater than the rest of the realms, or because the illithids respawn the same way PCs do, it's again an entirely OOC part of a video game that's designed to keep it fun for all.
Yes, it is still an observable part of the world, but the right thing to do is again to keep references to such things vague and circumstantial rather than hardline and factual in your IC RP.
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