Death penalty

Death penalty (commonly abbreviated as "DP") reduces your maximum health and energy values by the current % amount of the penalty. Every time you earn a penalty, it is added to your current total; this total cannot exceed -60%.

Removal
There are currently four known methods to remove DP:
 * 1) Killing enemies (earning Morale Boost). 2% is removed for each opponent slain by your team during PvP. In PvE the amount removed depends on how much experience you earn. In PvP you may earn Morale Boosts for achieving goals; these reduce DP by 15%. One death will erase all your morale boost, if you have the maximum boost of 10%, when you die, the 15% is subtracted from this and you have -5% penalty.
 * 2) Making an "Offering to Courage" to a god's avatar for 100g will reduce DP by 2%.
 * 3) Candy Canes, which were obtainable during Wintersday events, remove a character's death penalty completely.
 * 4) Going back to town, which will remove a character's DP completely.