I tried messaging the characters who looked like they would be able to return.
I'm hoping I can get back most of the originals.
I think for the ones who we can't get back we'll write stories for how we've since lost them.
Might even make a post of the warriors we've lost in battle. Might make it kind of open ended on how we "lost" them.
Won't just out rightly say they died, but maybe they just did in fact get lost our in the Red Waste or something.
I think I will choose one of the original characters though to be the catalyst that started the aforementioned war. Some of the people haven't been on here or posted in the past year so I hope they wouldn't mind if choose one of their characters.

Can't wait to hear back from you all. Please bring all ideas and criticisms with you!!