Okay, here is an update now that the servers are back:

I transferred all my toons (on 2 accounts) from Gladden and Crickhollow, and consolidated them on Arkenstone.

- All toons came over.
- All shared items came over.
- My house price was refunded and I got an email which storage and maintenance will be applied to my new house, if I buy one.
- I was able to claim my MAIN's name on Arkenstone by transferring a toon with that name from Crickhollow to Arkenstone, succesfully "bumping" an inactive person with that name.
- I was able to do that AGAIN on my second account.
- Inactive toon for my main was renamed to "Name-1", I already had that person on friends list. (Friendslist on Arkenstone is what remained).
- However, I was not able to add my OTHER "Name-1" from second account to friendslist, it just said "Character cannot be added". I don't care as I have the name, but I thought that was odd.

In short: I have aggressively gone in and transferred every bloody thing I could transfer (before they close it again, heh), and I must say it worked perfectly.