[Balanor]

Driving away any active player, regardless of how active they are, is one of the things I want to work hard to avoid. As it appears faction standing is a big sticking point here for multiple people, perhaps something else can be done if a combination of the compensation options I have listed aren’t appealing to try and make up for it? I'm open to suggestions. Maybe a zulkir takes note of a newly arrived and powerful wizard to Thay who knows much and sends them to the trials right away or makes them a Red Wizard outright. Same thing with a tharchion deciding to ‘draft’ a new arrival into their legion and give them the rank they had prior to the reboot. Doing this for every PC isn’t viable (we have well over 5K PCs in the server vault) since some type of short one-off event would be needed as an IC reason for it. But for those (semi-)active players who request compensation in the form of faction status for their PC(s) after the reboot I think, and hope, we could work something out.

Pleiade - currently memory of the future and exploits done prior to the reboot would be lost with the caveat that your PCs could/should RP that they ICly remember things very quickly:

What your PCs would Lose:
1. Memory of the future and any exploits of your PC in Thay prior to being thrown back in time. ICly, you will be asked to RP that you are 'awaking' in Thay sometime after the typical opening sequence having been saved from slavers by the mysterious allies. Essentially - it will be as though your returning PC is new to Thay as it was after the original opening sequence for new PCs, but you can RP that for some reason he/she seems to know or remember things about Thay, places within it, friends, enemies, allies, etc as they are encountered.

On a side note, I just had to check out Payne’s comment about 5th edition. I’m quite surprised WoTC may be backpedaling on the whole 4th edition debacle. Interesting.