@Jack: I do have contact with him from before he said they wish to join the RP, actually (from a Skype RP group Alf added me a long while back). As an extension, they have an access to the Compendium (if you recall, I got it out of the old site in its entirety, minus the hiders; hence a technique of "paste the thing over Skype" exists and is readily available). If something remains confusing still, they can ask here (he wanted to use a character of his own race - physically powerful somewhat wolflike (not shapeshifter) beings I guessed might be from somewhere west for the iteration of this world; his character would probably also be what is essentially a sound-elementalist by another name)?

I also spent some time thinking how, rather than Aemoten being in Rodoria (and quite used to it by now), the rest of the characters would fare when introduced to Sekalynic, Egemic or Drylandic (er... Amratarians and other such) cultures. Not all that likely to happen (but who knows?), but it could be quite interesting...

(Also, Mahz essentially stated they would like to, but don't really know how to fix the problem, since it has to do with the architecture - of what? the language they use? the server? he didn't specify - and he doesn't really have the means to handle it. I am partway inclined to offer to look at the thing and see whether I can fix it myself...

(If Syn is truly gone, then we should probably edit the available character spaces up. Might need Syn/Yoshua's confirmation on that.)