I liked Aliera when I started out. Seemed like a well made char, you had decent armor and I thought you'd be a valuable edition with an up and coming lich and et al. When I heroed, however, you stopped showing up. It seemed as though, as far as Marans go, you weren't entirely willing to commit to the downside and penalty of that lifestyle. Being a good maran at many times, for those of us who don't roll up Balrahd-quality characters, is at least partially defined by how well you can deal with taking the deaths and losses when outnumbered and against the tide. To me, it seemed as if you went the way of the warlocks in logging out whenever trouble started to rear its ugly head. What compounded the matter was your "connection" problems causing you to become increasingly sparse, while other characters you had seemed to flourish. As a tattoed follower of Shokai I felt that frowned on Shok, since in general he resserves his tats for truly diehard individuals, and Aliera as a Maran seemed not to be a diehard individual. My suggestion would be to stick to playing one character at a time, and when a character's time has come let them go because dragging it out only made you as a player look bad.