The Elite

On my little dwarf alt (who is currently level seven and rising fast, I love her to death), I am in this guild of lowbies. I am one of the youngest, being still in the newb zone (I think the highest is twenty/thirty something), so I don't demand much respect from my elders, or anything, or the guy who invited me into the guild. I figured I'd probably be ignored like any other lower-than-fifteen lowbie in a lowbie guild is ignored.

But this guy joins the guild a few minutes after me and declares himself an Alliance know-nothing because he is a Hordie in disguise. He's playing a Night Elf rogue. He's never played rogue before either. I admire him for trying something new. Bravo. And my heart goes out to him because I am a hordie in disguise as well.

After I admit I'm one of him, I think that the people in the guild might be a little, well, disgusted. I mean, I am not saying that Alliance players are generally discriminatory against Horde players. Far from it. I have met some tremendously nice Alliance. I've even quested with them on Galileyo. They are some great people. However, for some reason the vibe I was getting from this guild was a little sketchy. I figured our declarations of Horde allegiance would be met with slanderous remarks and some "your orc mom" comments.

Instead we got nothing but love. It was joy and happiness for the two Hordelings that stumbled on this little guild in Dun Morough. We became their new fascination. We had an inside view on the Horde, which most of them had never experienced before. Not that we divulged any secrets or anything, but when asked which races were most popular and which race was best for each class, etc., we happily answered, glad to be welcomed rather than shunned in this strange new miniature world on the Alliance side of things.

So after some guild goodness, I have some newb funniness. The guy who invited me was playing a gnome warlock.

And I think he's probably never played WoW before, even though he says he's leveled a mage or pally or something before.

He had to ask if the warlock minions looked the same for Alliance as they did for Horde.

Among other things.