I'm afraid my time here is through, at least for the foreseeable future. I very much regret that... this game no longer holds any interest for me. The thing that drew me in was dragons... the thing that made me stay was the community. Over the past year and a half I have watched that community slowly erode...and finally there is not enough left to keep me interested in roleplaying, when three fourths of my friends from Istaria are not only gone from the game, but I've contact with them over skype! Still there are a couple with whom I would like to maintain contact and might now and again drop by... but for the most part, I am going to be gone.
If you have any relation to my characters, then I leave you with these excuses for their absences:
Essera: The Sleep.
Asua: Unknown, disappeared. (She does that from time to time.)
Eidolen: Gone to search for his Father in Taeillo, to put him to rest. Despite the risk, this is something he 'must do alone'.
...well that should about cover the characters who have relations to players who are still around, I believe. I hate to see Istaria degrade to such a state where I can no longer bear to stay after only a year and a half... but that's the way it is. The RP community is on its way out and the game besides that was a lifeless husk to begin with.