This sounds like the character you were playing had data corruption. Ugh. Put in a support ticket. In the interim, if you have another character on the affected account, try to log into that one. Sometimes that'll fix the bad one.
"No sadder words of tongue or pen are the words: 'Might have been'." -- John Greenleaf Whittier
"Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda
On planet Earth, there is a try.
Indeed, in a world and life full of change, the only constant is human nature (A is A, after all :P).
We old vets need to keep in mind those who come after us.