WotLK My character is gone

[Zzimeg]

I've logged back into the server after like a year and all my characters are gone. Were they deleted for being inactive or something? Can anyone help me restore them or are they gone forever?

[OhieMitzen]

If you played on Frostmourne:

- Frostmourne S3 [April 15, 2022 - ongoing] There's no reason your character to be gone. It was most likely manually deleted via in-game by a person that has an access to the account.
- Frostmourne S2 [April 15, 2021 - April 14, 2022]: Go to https://www.warmane.com/account/services, select Frostmourne S2 as realm and begin character transfer to Icecrown.
- Frostmourne S1 [April 15, 2020 - April 14, 2021]: Transfers from Frostmourne S1 to Icecrown are closed.

If character is gone from one of the other realms:

- If they were below level 30, they were most likely deleted on inactivity cleanup. No restoration available.
- If they were above level 30, and you don't have characters listed when you login in-game, the chances are they were deleted by somebody who had access to your account. Either this was a "friend" or some random whom found out your login info.
- There's a chance you may be able to recover one character for free via https://www.warmane.com/account/services by selecting realm -> Currency: Free -> Character Restoration. Further Character Restorations requires Coins. Works only if the character was deleted by a player, not applicable if character was deleted due to inactivity cleanup.