My boyfriend at the time loved the game, knew I enjoyed writing stories and character creation for other games and my own writing.
So he set me up with an Undead Warlock in the starter zone when our server first launched back in August 2006. Played it for a while, was fascinated.
Then made a Gnome Mage on my own account and realized I didn’t want to be as short in game as I feel IRL. LOL
So we both decided to make characters together and he’d teach me how to RP. We made Night Elves. His, a warrior, mine a Druid. Thallia was my main from then on, up until DF.