It seems kind of awkward that deleting a Seasonal character only takes 3 minutes and is perfectly fine, yet it takes 24 hours to delete a normal character.  There doesn't really appear to be any real reason to the wait being so long or why it should be any different now a days.

It's not like you can "accidently" delete a Normal character.  First you have to put away any horses, wagons, ships, etc.  Then you have to remove all pearl items from the character (which in some cases you can't do unless you delete them entirely). Then you have to go through the applicable menus before you can select delete and press accept on the warning.

Why not just remove the wait and hassle of someone wanting to make a new character by dropping the Normal character's time to 3 min to match the Seasonal's.  Maybe change the final check from Clicking "OK" to typing <Character's Name> in the confirmation box if you want to really be sure.

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The ONLY justification I can think of, is maybe if you get hacked, and someone tries deleting all your characters, and you basically get 24 hours to quickly get back access to your account before you are fk'ed.

+1 this is very annoying -_-