Well, to be honest, I started trying something different, and found that I liked it much better. I've have my share of Fortress characters, and I still don't really like the new Fortress as much as I used to when Dawn was Dawn and the Maran cabal was just a tattoo and a name.

I had only a few friends in Maran as Avalene, and that contributed to my dormancy.. Fortress was really strong, Avalene really had noone to fight and noone seemed to enjoy my roleplaying with her, so that's that

C'est la vie.

On a side note, I tried an Empire character since Avalene, and the way it is run and the inter-cabal politics is just wonderful. Even when there's nothing to do, there's always backstabbing your fellow cabalmates. Whee!