Not so fast, and of course a realm is never the same as the former, but...
Rest assured that once the realm council is elected, each of the new realms will be allowed to establish their realms as they wish, whether thats as entirely new creations or a continuation of older realms and islands.
As you say, it isn't the same and I'm not going to be the one who tries to force it back to life like a bad zombie movie. Unlike some of the comments on here though I fully intend to keep playing with the full set of characters (though it may take till after Christmas to get going again).
