Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24302820-20140822221301/@comment-24302820-20140909225156

All of the former PCs that I have used as NPCs I have done so with permission. For example, I have used Marcellus (my NPC) when the guild went looking for Aerlyn (a former PC). I also have the Aerenidae (her pseudo-clones) but those were NPCs from Aerlyn's active days. In her case, she definitely had a (literal) sailing off into the sunset retirement, I would never even ask to use Aerlyn, even if I was still in contact with the player.

Consensus seems to be that one's characters are always the rightful property of the player. Of course; I never should have suggested otherwise. While I was thinking about PCs of political importance whose players have long ago dropped off, their characters are still theirs. I apologise.