Character missing

[vonVince]

I just installed after last playing nearly two years ago (I remember fondly this mini-event with a dwarf "Santa Claus" NPC) and notice that upon logging with my account my character is missing: the charater was Empire Warrior Priest Wolfrecht (I even managed to find an old screenshot I took at the very start of my gaming https://s13.postimg.org/3ux6naa1h/857876.jpg)

It's not the biggest loss if the character's truly gone - although I leveled quite a bit with him and did most of the quests that were implemented in Nordland back then - so I'm wondering if there's any chance for me to get my character back?

[Elven]

Any accounts that had not been logged in 6+ months were wiped. Characters affected cannot be restored.

[vonVince]

Any accounts that had not been logged in 6+ months were wiped. Characters affected cannot be restored.

I thought this might be the case. Oh well; at least I get to see how the game has improved over the last (almost) two years from the very beginning now.

Just curious - is that thing with the dwarf "Santa Claus" (I seem to recall that the NPC's name was "Drunk Santa Claus" and I'm under the impression that the Return of Reckoning team made it by themselves) something that takes place every Christmas?