sorry, I somehow seem to have 'lost' the post (as I did with my essence *g*), couldn't find it in the forum anymore, only now I had the glorious idea of checking under 'my posts'
I should have been more specific, as I know of the intended essence-losing-events like dying and imbuing, but apart from giving birth (not much under my control and afaik not troublesome in this regard) nothing special happened.
or in other words: it happened after loading a game, not after some special event. I did die a few times but that loss I've taken into account (or reloaded 
) so I'm really losing essence, not just displacing it *g*
