@SERPENT_DESCEND I’ll admit, I did kind of link two ideas that you probably weren’t intending to go together.
First, the regular if you run out of health in shadow form, you return to the totem. Basically +1 lives but with a some disadvantages.
Second, if your idea that if you get knocked, you also return to the totem and go into shadow form. That’s again a +1 life, so your enemies would have to kill you 3 times in order to win.
My apologies, these things wouldn’t both be implemented. I misread your post a bit.