I believe that was a successful character. Despite demotions and mocking from Khasotholas ;P.

If one has fun then I suppose any character can be considered successful. On the other hand, being demoted and mocked by one of your cabal's chief immortals, hating your sect and eventually deleting because you failed to receive a lich quest all smack of failure. First statement holds, though. If you had fun, then nobody can argue with your characterization of Caoimhellin as a success.

Kardok, Njaal. Most skilled and impressive.

Not to puff up their egos, but I'm in total agreement. You can count on those two raiding, showing up to defend, and generally making life difficult. Not so much with Caoimhellin, unless you include "spelling up whoever Yanacek has knocked out" in the category of "making life difficult".

When I've been checking my range and seeing all those pansy worthless goodies, all tittled and lastnamed....

I'm curious about who, in particular, you take such issue with. That is, assuming you can state your case without the post getting deleted. If that's impossible (through no fault of your own) then so be it.