There are a few concepts that I started but either never fully finished or never really got to do anything with:
Blademaster Death Knight- A 4th gen Orc Death Knight who was the mother of my Orc Warrior. She was a Blademaster in life, slain by bounty hunters after the Second War. Admittedly this was one of those characters I sometimes end up making where I’m unable to form a personality apart from the themes that drove their creation. Perhaps if I’d given her more time and/or had more opportunities to break her in I’d have something more substantial, but I had neither of those.
Death Knight Weapon- This was also an Orc Death Knight concept, predating the former. She saw her existence as being that of a literal living weapon. While I found the base concept interesting, I couldn’t quite figure a means to develop it further and I think I ended up deleting her for space.
Highborne Necromancer- I had a somewhat half-baked idea for a Night Elf who became a necromancer to learn how to bring back her lost love. I never did anything with it. If I had she would have likely been a villain in an event or campaign.
Demon Hunter turned Demon- This might be a bit of a cheat as I technically never completely forgot about it, rather I just haven’t done anything with it for a while. This was a Demon Hunter, displaced after the attack on Black Temple, who out of fear of being hunted by Varedis becomes a demon herself then later continues operate free of the Legion but independent of the Illidari. She was the sister of my active Demon Hunter character, who now maintains vigil against her; basically, just for being a demon. She lived on through this plot point for a time but since I started to lean more towards Theara’s struggles to acclimate to life without the Legion, her obsession with her has, perhaps ironically, taken a backseat. I had considered actually rping the character, but I’d prefer to do it outside of a public/walk up kind of setting and I currently lack the ambition to create such a thing myself, nor have I found such an opportunity elsewhere.
Runemasters- I really like the concept of Runemasters from the ttrpg and have on several occasions tried to make characters of them; a couple iterations were Orcs, one was Nightborne, another was a Night Elf. The most recent one was a Worgen. Their story partially involved using arcane energy to maintain their sanity. Each attempt has eventually fallen out of favor for some reason. I’m not really sure why I’m unable to commit.
Civilians- I currently have two civilian characters who I’d charitably consider active, with one being an alternate version of the other. I have made several others in the past, of different races, bearing different jobs at different echelons of society, but I haven’t gotten too far with any of them. I like the general idea of playing relatively normal against the more commonly extraordinary characters we typically prefer, but I think the two authors I’ve already made seem to make this concept work best for me; at least since it gives me an eternally flexible hook to utilize.
Fledgling Monks- again this is cheating a bit because I’m somewhat in the process of trying it again. Back during BfA I had this idea for a Kul’tiran and a Vulpera Monk. They were rival pirate-brawlers who shared the same intrigue in the Way of the Monk and came under the tutelage of the same master. This was always planned to be explored more through a written narrative than rp, but I did make each character in game. Originally it mostly just time and other obligations keeping me from doing much with it, plus I few immediate thoughts how the narrative would actually go, just the general concept and characters.
Relatively recently I’ve somewhat resurrected the concept by marrying it another one I had, involving an errant troupe of Celestial priests/monks. This also includes other characters following the same ‘in training’ idea; a Night Elf and soon a Worgen.
There are a few others, but some I don’t remember well enough to share and others I simply don’t care to share at the moment.
