Recovery of Hardcore Items

Recently I posted a topic suggesting how it would be nice if we could recover some of our weapons from hardcore characters who died in the hardcore realms. While I appreciate that they don’t die per se and can be used in non Hardcore realms I don’t play in those realms anymore as beating the game on hardcore has sort of made me less interested in anything but a hardcore mode.

@Eggabeg suggested that there be a mini torn boss to defeat that would allow us to recover the items or armor or weapons of the previous hardcore character that died in that realm. This would work with multiplayer as well wouldn’t it? What if when you die (say at level 30 with lots of cool stuff) your corpse is left on the realm map and is lootable. What if the bounty board would allow folks visiting the realm to quest after your famous loot! What if you just wanted to be able to try and get it back and you had to beat other Cerim to it?

Realistically Hardcore mode has a lot of potential and I’m tired of dying to ledges, accidental jumps, and every single shield user who can wham me over the edge of a cliff. I’d like to be able to recover my stuff or some of my stuff without feeling like I have to store a bunch of stuff for a new build in another realm (which I do). Thoughts on this?