I haven’t played WOW classic in around a year or even more, didn’t even play in TBC.
Now I considered starting again but found that both my Mage and Paladin characters are gone.
I understand there was one or more server merges, the thing is I don’t even remeber what realm my characters were on.
The Paladin name was Stormblade, it was level around 52 I believe
The mage was only around 25 and I don’t remeber his name, the paladin is much more important.
I had some other characters as well, seems like for some reason a level 15 and level 9 survived, they now appear on Realm Dreadnaught PVP.
I tried hitting the “Restore Deleted Characters” on this realm and almost on any other realm but no luck.
You may need to create a ticket to check where your characters are on Classic.
Otherwise check Mograine/Hydraxian Waterlords for cloned toons they’re automatically moved into the merged realms. You may need to refresh the realmlist with a level 1 dummy toon.
Edit: The above paragraph was for WOTLK. Added a couple words.