After reading all of this, going back through old memories of Ageis and my new characters recent past, I have thought of a lot of opinions. I had joined the server after a request from a friend, I think his character and mine were brothers, been too long. Well the dwarfs had just changed their capital to be a bit more outside and we had decided to head off into the wilds. We passed a fort and settled on a Gravel beach. Stuff happened, I got two friends to join, the guy who got me to join slowly quit playing(I have got him to play more lately) and it just moved on. I made a whole bunch of rp for my character and so forth. Well, about two months after I joined, the Undead returned. They were pretty cool at first, I honestly cannot talk about the Ascended for I idn't ever meet one. As time went on, the problem got worst and worst, i had more and more fun, about the time the great ice storm hit(my way of explaining the biome change in 1.8 I don't know if there was any real rp behind it) They turned a bit bad. I knew and an undead IC and one other OOC-ly and talked to them both often (one, I am sad to say was Arteh). So I got to see the rp first hand. It wasn't too bad. Blundermore mentions Gm's having to be the main people, is when it seamed to get bad. No offence, but the rp slowly got worst and worst. I started to notice one lining lightning. Okay well the point of this long story of my first characters back ground is my character never was really scared of Undead for he new one IC.
My new character who is 40 now was born 5 years after the boats docked, he is the son of my first character. I have spent many a weeks making Rp for him, I recently got some gloves made. For a bit i was brought into some rp I was told was accepted but later learn this was a lie. so I had spent a month Rp-ing some stuff for my character that was just basically thrown away.
What I am saying I guess is I understand ,kinda, what it is like to have to through away a good amount of Rp and I did Rp with some undead. I originally didn't want them back for the one lining of lightning, but since it seams it wasn't the undead to blame, I am not so sure, As I said before, I cannot speak on Ascended for I never met any Rp-ly. I am quite torn on the subject at this moment.
I was not there for the last event because I had to go to my fathers the weekend it happened, plus all the rp leading up to it lagged my computer, I was there right before the boats left. I do not know anything about these "Liches" so i have no opinion on them. That's all I have to say really.