I have been here intermittently for a while, so i suppose it is almost the same thing since my characters are from 2008 and i have been staying fairly quiet when i have been on in the last few years so i do not disturb more active roleplay threads.

My primary character is a Nolthrir with a rather quiet nature (and so far no one on my old friends list has been on anyway) so there does not seem to be any legacy problems with just continuing on as if there was not a gap. 

My second one was a Diaboli which could be a problem since they are no longer a player race though i suppose i can just play that part down and say i am a short very dark skinned, tailed and horned Ynnwn with a playful free-spirited nature instead of the grim bruiser personality the Ynnwn seem to project (i had the illustration of the Diaboli in mind when i made the character instead of the 'shiny oil black skin' written description so i suppose it fits better anyway as long as her stats are not retconned to the fighter-biased Ynnwn ones (which they have not been so far as i can tell).  The funny thing is that the 'inspect' still says "you see a female Diaboli".   I have edited the changeable part of it to say the Ynnwn stuff above as a 'second glance' description though.