dizietsma -
Tribe zones are only going to be safe during the Prelude.
Everyone else -
All players, no matter their alignment, will be spawning back at their totem (thankfully). He liked the idea in a thread from a few months ago. Too many exploitive ways to play with respawns at your corpse. It was also confirmed to me a 3-4 days ago. He just hasn't had time to code it in, yet.