I've been wondering, will I ever be able to play illarion anytime soon? I was waiting for a while now, I understand GM are busy, but just in case one reads it.
All you can do is be patient; and you may require bucketloads of it, considering we have only a handful or less amount of people working on the ungodly amount of requests.
Time, like many things, can be relative. And patience never comes out of fashion as a virtue.
Some people waited one week. Some two. Some three. Some four.
It all depends on the current workload/amount of requests, and oftenly also hinges on how acceptable the account name is.