Well, yes, but first a brief explanation: Minotaur Hotel started on 4chan as a "quest", which is basically a format of interactive and collective storytelling where readers suggest what should happen and a writer acts as a sort of DM. Back then we received suggestions for characters, some of which made it over from those early days (Kota and Luke), but most of them didn't.
Most notably there was an Egyptian jackal called Jojo, a gecko called Nito and some kind of bird made of cosmic void, appropriately called Voidbird. Though I didn't like some of those back then, nowadays I look back to them fondly. That said, I must give the caveat that Nito is in the game, but he's locked in the zone of non-existence, forever lost in the code, never to see the light of the sun again.
Now, excluding those characters and despite what it may seem, the development of Minotaur Hotel has been rather lean in the sense that there was very little "wastefulness". We managed to put in almost everything we set out to have. Except for the Hinterlands, we had quite a bit of cut content there -- we've gone into detail over the years about that. A whole lore document got cut (Pedro's Spellbook, which we published recently on Patreon) but now that I think about it, there's another thing.
So, at some point I thought about adding a vampire to the Hinterlands -- but it was going to be a very specific, surgical and loving reference to a writer from the state where the Hinterlands happen. He was a local journalist who I had the privilege of meeting and he was one of the earliest people to vouch for me as a writer. Sadly he passed away years ago, so I wanted to have this character as a nod to him, and as a way to discuss some topics about creativity. It was going to be a rather literary moment.