Character not appearing at the character select screen

[Davorok]

Excalibur is down also.

[Gerrr]

Locked out of the game. Errors in the lobby won't let me in, but the patch downloaded fast.
Cool patch bro.

[Xikeroth]

Same issue here but I had 1 character showing up on my character select screen, and it was an inactive character that I cancelled.. kinda makes you go "wtf did SE break!?"

[LunaTimaeus]

Worry not, they're doing maint. Nothing will be lost, worst comes to worst they do a server rollback and you lose the 1hr or so you had to play since the patch >.>

[Lilymoon]

When the character poofs like that it just means the server crashed and was probably shut down for maintence. It can't retrieve the full character data when it can't reach the server :P