» Fri May 27, 2011 10:18 pm
A lot will depend on why they died. IIRC if you did it (even accidentally), then you are ejected from the faction and have to do a reinstatement quest to get your rank back. Look in your journal to see if you've been thrown out of any guild/brotherhood etc. recently. You may not even have to kill them for that to happen, but a subsequent death could have covered up the "crime" that did so.