Meta WoW: What kind of person ARE you?

What sort of person would do the things that our World of Warcraft characters do?

This varies depending on which quests and professions we choose, but some things are shared by all. To progress at all, every character is something of a hunter of beasts and enemies. The earliest quests involve killing a number of creatures and collecting trophies of some sort or other. Before long, the killing of creatures turns into the assassination of sentients. It can be argued that many of these assassination requests can be justified in the mind of a certain sort of person. This has a secret agent, “007 meets high fantasy” tone. Sometimes, our characters are asked to do things that are more difficult to justify. One quest in particular, suggested by a member of the Undead faction, is to murder a farmer and his family. Another of the Undead asks for components of a biological weapon to use against the humans. I keep expecting a ‘murder women and children in the Tusken Raider village’ quest. Thankfully, none have gone to that extreme.

It’s all shades of gray. There is a warm-to-cold war going on between the Alliance and the Horde, and in times of war, values and norms often shift. Every playable character must have, at best, a Conan the Barbarian code of ethics: enemies are to be killed, friends aided, life is short and brutal, death is cheap, and the strong flourish. I find it interesting that in Conan’s world, he was an extremely rare, if not unique individual. The World of Warcraft is filled with people like this.