I’m gonna be blunt and say it isn’t hard to write something fluffy to add some world-building to a setting and include the LGBTQ crowd with at least a few characters.
Let me just stick the ol’ finger down the throat and we’re off.
Horde Players encounter Rograd the Seeker, an Orc Warrior, who needs their help getting up a fortified mountain-side to where his life-mate and several other Horde adventurers are trapped behind enemy lines.
You’re running up and Rograd is being an absolute gem, talking about going home soon with his mate and looking after raising their children full-time on a wolf-ranch in the Barrens. He’s Sparta-kicking enemies off the edges of cliffs, being annoying when you stop to do something because his mate is in danger, asking if you’ve ever been in love, the works, you beat the mini-boss, get to the top, the Horde adventurers have taken shelter in a cave and a Tauren steps out, carrying a badly wounded Orc woman in his arms.
“Hero, take her, she is badly wounded … as are we all. I cannot carry her anymore.”
You rush up, take the wounded Orc … Rograd rushes up and embraces the Tauren and asks where he’s injured.
Congratulations, you’ve just met Rograd and Turrek, a married couple. A gay married couple. With kids.
Have them pop up from time to time, shopping for supplies in Orgrimmar, with Rograd saying he wants to grab a small axe for their daughter, and Turrek sighing and pointing out little Ginta is already beating up her older brothers, they are not giving her a weapon … they are getting weapons for the twins to even the odds instead. Ginta is getting a wolf pup instead.
Have Rograd and Turrek pop up every now and again, two rough and proud Horde heroes who can’t stop gushing about their children, their ranch or each other.
For the Alliance, we could have a Night Elf priest tasking the players to round up some supplies to help displaced Kaldorei and Worgen refugees make a go of it in Elwynn Forest and Redridge, and you stumble across a small farm where somebody’s trying to grow herbs from Draenor without much success until you show them how to properly tend to them. You get a sample of herbs and meander your way back. Night Elf priest is stunned to see fresh Frostweed, and asks for the herbs for their own use. They then tell you they’ll ask for your aid again later, they have experiments to run.
A few ‘days’ later, the NPC Priest sends you a letter asking you to come back, where they’ve created a small herb garden and, of all things, a series of ponds in which they are tending to a burgeoning population of exotic fish, and they explain there was a specific potion that was made by the Draenei on Draenor, but with the destruction of the planet and the loss of so many lives, both the reagents and the knowledge to produce it was lost. The Kaldorei had a similar potion, but since theirs was arcane -based, the knowledge was lost when the Highborne left and those that returned never bothered to bring their records of such an obscure tincture.
After much trial and error and asking the player to assist them with producing oil from a variety of fishes, the tincture is made and the Night Elf Priest manages to produce a single tincture … and applies a drop of moonwell water to the mix, and then downs it.
The Priest turns into a Priestess, and then starts crying, thanking the player as they’ve been seeking a way to be true to themselves for thousands of years, and with the destruction of their small herb-garden in Teldrassil, they’ve been unable to supply themselves with the tincture they’d learned of in Draenor, lamenting how hard it has been to tend to their people when they haven’t been able to be ‘themselves’ since the disaster.
Night Elf Priestess is then seen wandering around Stormwind with refugees from Teldrassil in tow, discussing how they can help the people of the Alliance and the creation of a Moonwell within Stormwind itself, and discussing points of theology with a Tidesage, a Lightforged Vindicator and a Gnomish Priest at various points of her patrol.