The PC is Arkan Solaris, the Elf in Empire who got his specs back.I Was probably 12-13 when I played when Istendil was around. But back then you really couldn't learn much without just making a pc's for about 1-2 years that got destroyed by everything. I used to enter a fight like this bash target ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! and wonder why i'd lose :P So yeah, i'm a good bit better now, but I still don't really go consistent with CF. I do spurts.
All those other liches listed really never came close to the power level of Istendil/Zorsaul in my opinion. And Satebos and Ahtieli only did as good as they did because of anti-gank code.