Would the Imm staff be willing to take on people to an Immortal status high enough to run quests and have a religion rather than start at the HeroImm level? I'm not talking about former imms either.

See, I would like to contribute in that way. Almost purely on interaction and/or furthering the enjoyment of the playerbase (believe it). I am a people person. I like ambience. I have an area about 95% done and could submit it, but I don't really have the drive to hammer out anything else with it after all this time.

I just think the game needs immediate attention in this regard - it certainly does not need more areas.