Respawning in Unexplored Areas

My party (henchmen and heroes) died and instead of respawning at a resurrection shrine that we passed/discovered, we respawned at a resurrection shrine way ahead of us, in an undiscovered area. Is this a bug? And has this happened to anyone else?

Thanks.

It happens, once in a while. Can be very helpful too.

This can happen quite easily in Factions if you have more faction with one or the other factions, Kurzick or Luxon. Depending on the current Kurzick/Luxon border, some res shrines will be guarded by one or the other. If you have more points for the opposing faction when you die, you will be teleported to a neutral res shrine, or a res shrine guarded by the faction that you currently have more points with, whichever is closer. You can also bribe or defeat all the res shrine guards if they are hostile to you to activate the shrine.

I have noticed it happens when the unexplored shrine is closer "as the crow flies"

I have this happen often. More times in Factions as MisterB mentioned, but I've had it happen a few times out in the Desolation part of Nightfall. I have yet to figure out why this happens though...

Thanks for the replies, guys. And this might be the dumbest thing you've ever been asked, but is this like a bannable bug exploit or something? Again, sorry for the dumb question.

No way that's bannable. That's just how the game works.

Random bug and not something you have control over. So no, you won't get punished over it.

This happens to me all the time in Proph and Factions, never in EotN or Nightfall though. It's because shrine activation was introduced in Nightfall, where you have to get near a shrine to activate it.