[Filatus]

I recognized Daeron a lot in the part about retiring a character. After Blood was defeated, he made the founding of Stort his one remaining goal in life, but when that one came to fruition there was little left. At least not enough to keep my interest.

He lacked the drive because he was to a degree very successful and had little left to strive for. For all intense and purpose, he's pretty much retired. Though I would have preferred to have seen him retire in a more gratifying manner.

I've considered ways to retire him several times, but there never seemed to be a good way that I could find. And the longer you way, the more you get out of touch with your PC and people even forget about him.

There's something sad about characters just fading away. It is so much better to go out with a bang like Varka did. But for Daeron that moment passed a long time ago.

So I would say that retiring your PC in a satisfactory manner is not easy. It's easy to be tempted to keep them around, just in case. But if you don't put much thought into it, they can just fade away.