TERA news » TERA Is Releasing Inactive Names

Due to the recent surge of new players coming into TERA via Steam, we have decided to release inactive character names, making them available to new characters.

Any characters that have not logged into the game since June 25, 2014 will have their names appended with "_1", freeing up their old names to anyone creating a new character or using the paid Character Name Change service.

If you have characters whose names you want to keep, but you haven’t logged into TERA with those characters since June 25 of last year, you should log in to TERA and enter the game with each of those characters before Thursday, June 25, 2015.

For more details, see our Name Release FAQ or discuss this post in the official forum thread.