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Probably best explanation:

The warring races issue has brought up one modification to how people play the game that some aren't too happy about. Normally when you die, you can have a friend go to your corpse and drag it out of danger. That won't work so well in Velious. If you die in an area where you are viewed as an enemy, and have a friend who is liked by that race try to drag your corpse out, they will be viewed as assisting the enemy and therefore attacked. This is only a minor setback that can you can get around using invisibility, unless the mob can see through that at which point you will be seeing "LOADING ¿ PLEASE WAIT" once again...

http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=35536
http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/165/165361p1.html (December 8, 2000)

The NPC AI has also been adjusted in Velious. In the past, if you had trouble retrieving a corpse, you could have a comrade drag your corpse out of danger to another area of the zone. In Velious, however, a new angle comes into play. If you have bad faction with a new mob (let’s say Ice Dragons) and you are killed with your corpse surrounded by Ice Dragons you’ll face a new obstacle. If you call on a friend who has good faction with Ice Dragons and they try to drag your corpse away, that friend will find that the Dragons (who normally tolerate their presence) will attack as soon as he tries to drag the corpse. Nasty.

http://www.gamesfirst.com/reviews/ben/Velious/scars.htm

Death has never been easy to deal with in Norrath, as having to retrieve the possessions from your own corpse, let alone having to spend hours regaining the experience you've lost, can be extremely frustrating, but Velious adds a further possible complication. It's no longer safe for a player with good faction standing to drag another player's corpse to a convenient location for the revived player, as the creatures of Velious won't let someone assist their enemies. This makes death an even greater risk in Velious, so again, unless you're traveling in a large group or with high-level clerics ready to resurrect their fallen comrades, then you'd best be extremely careful.

http://reviews.cnet.com/pc-games/eve...evious%3bpage1
http://www.gamespot.com/everquest-th...eview-2663885/