Inquiry about deleted characters

Hi. I've decided to come back to playing wow. To my surprise half of my chars are gone. I had a mage, a warrior and a warlock that i was leveling alongside my other chars. They had some heirlooms on them. I still see data folder for the aforementioned chars, but i cant see them in-game.
I was wondering is there any way that we can bring it back? I would hate losing the things that I've worked for.
Names were : papagrgur ; hellhound ; kaldhun ; bomboklatt.
I'm guessing anything under 60 was deleted, but if only i could get the mage and heirlooms i bought so i could continue questing up that would be wonderful. Thanks in advance!

And of course brandhul my beloved hunter. Its saddening to see them all gone. Lets work on a solution, please.

Solution: meet requirements that prevent your characters from being deleted. Yep, it is that easy.
You've decided to abandon account, but now you are very sorry and passionate about it... Doesn't work like that.

See that's the thing about you. You assuming you know everything. Assuming that i DECIDED to abandon my account. Your way of expressing and circling around my persona in hopeless attempts to put a pin on every living human tells me that all you do is tend to your precious account. All you do is care for it and you never ever abandon it.
"Now you are very sorry" sounds like you're punching in a repetitive situation from your life out on this thread. Since your plethora of weapons and skills consist of "ban from forum" "ban from game" "delete" and "restrict" I'm quite positive that you will use one of those that can be counted on less than one hands fingers. I've given my time to those characters, of course i will be inquiring about how to get them back. The most valuable resource has been put into that, which obviously some of you do not recognize. I'm willing to let them go if you promise to go out more.
Solution : meet the day, bathe in the sun, don't let your personal life suffer because of a game. Yep, it is that easy.
You've decided to abandon the world, but now you are very sorry and passionate about it. Too late, doesn't work like that.

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 characters are gone from other realms, and you haven't played in a while:

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, 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 will require Coins. This is only if character was deleted very recently (by a player).
Characters from decommissioned realms can no longer be transferred. Exception being Frostmourne Season II, as mentioned above.

More info about cleanups: Inactivity Cleanup and Gold Squish for a healthier economy

And that's called being helpful and reaching out. Thank you my dear friend. Characters were on ICC and I have 2 factor so it's impossible someone went in and got them considering how well protected my email is.
I will try the aforementioned strategies. Thanks again,

Kindest Regards.

Well, if your account is secure as you claim, then Persivaln was right, the system deleted your neglected alts.

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Originally Posted by rokibrat1

I have 2 factor so it's impossible someone went in

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As long as you have it active in the game, yes. Could not be your case, but whenever we have someone get characters manually deleted or inventory stolen and say they have 2fa on, it's always a case it was only turned on in the site, but never in-game.

I have it in game, it's safe to say that I am tech literate. They got deleted by administration when the cleanup was issued. I still have their folders, does it mean that with an appeal I can get them back? In char-restoration on site there is no option for those missing ones. Thank you all for your insightful responses.

No. If they were removed in the inactivity clean-up they are gone and not coming back.

Well that's unfortunate. Anyways, thank you all for your responses,

Kindest Regards.