7-8, then? Sounds solid enough of a base, giving ample join opportunity and keeping the ranks down.

There is a possibility to make existing characters go evil via corruption that occurs by mere association with evil. So if you want to go that route with an existing character, it's open.

A Jan 1st reboot seems to be the most likely course. [@IcePezz] wants to start no sooner than the new year, so there will be a few more days.

If you folks want ot get ahead a little, you can keep the original CS but update it in the meantime to reflect 25 years. The world itself has gotten darker in the meantime, so there's that element if you intend to add the years as years of hunting demons. Note that hunting demons for too long exercises a certain mental and spiritual strain. One character from the original RP here will re-enemerge considerably different already.

Expect a smaller town than Waeldeshore as the starting point for simplicity. There is a possibility of a map being made for it.

Right now, the most likely start of  the RP will be a reunion of sorts + new characters we pick up over the course of a week in the new interest check.

Dedicated players from the what is now a prequel will definitely not be booted in favor of throwing a new player in.

There is a revised CS in the works; but so long as the old one is updated there shouldn't be any revision of existing ones necessary.

There's the possibility of a wiki to compile lore, but a lore posting on this site should be good enough for now until content gets to be of a massive size.

All I can think of for now.