Retaining of Items in Storage

If I were to delete all of my characters on the account, would the gold and items in the storage be retained (kept there and not deleted)? I need to delete the one character I have left for PvP and GvG reasons (don't ask) and I have 320,000 gold (320 platinum) in the storage. I need a for sure answer, please. Thanks!

yes

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If you're just deleting one character of your four, all your items in storage would remain. If you need to delete all of your characters, do one at a time then recreate a new character before proceeding to the next deletion.

There are storage people in the PvP areas too so it wouldn't make sense for it to get emptied.