Wow has two major factions to choose from Alliance or Horde. Why did you choose to create your characters in the faction you are playing now?
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When i first started playing, it just looked like the good v the bad, like the character select options for horde all looked like they were ugly and smelly 
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I originally chose alliance because thatâs what my friend wanted to play when him and I quit playing Everquest to play WoW back in 2004. Eventually I played both, horde and alliance.
While playing horde one day I met a friend in-game and eventually we met in real life, we fell in love and got married, and we had a daughter that we named after each of our in-game characters. (Her first name was my wifeâs character, and her middle name was my characterâs) when my wife and daughter passed away in a car accident I never wanted to play anything but horde ever again - not sure if it was because my wife always played horde. Maybe?
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Small goofy gnome, sharing the same / right next to the Dwarf starting zone. Easy to play with a friend yet be something different. Character still exists to this day.
Back in 2007 - 2010 the Horde didnât have much appeal aesthetic wise due to very ugly models. (More so in my kid brain then the alliance) I probably didnât really play Horde until closer to Mists of Pandaria.
Because the Horde doesnât have Nelf monks.
I prefered the Horde themes and stories. For me there is something compelling about the Horde sticking together like a family in many inhospitable territories. The prevalence of the shamanistic/spirit culture and their aspirations to honor/glory. The Alliance always felt more political, less coherent and way more bland.
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Teldrassil. Plain and simple. My first ever retail toon was a nelf.
Not knowing anything about the game, I happily got lost in the trees just exploring.
Very few areas in the game capture that same ambience that teldrassil has and no other zone holds the same nostalgia.
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My Guild came from Everquest. There were a lot of women in our Guild, and most of us chose Alliance at the time because of Elves and Humans, many of the guys followed because of Paladins. The other half of our Guild went to Horde.
I played Alliance from 2004 until 2009 when a stalking incident drove me from the Faction. At the time Blizzard wouldnât do anything to help, and because my sister and I have always played WoW together the guy always seemed to be able to work out who I was by who she was grouped with. His abuse became really extreme so in 2009 my sister and I transferred all our Mains to Horde, name changed most of them, and stopped playing our Alliance characters.
Now I play both Horde and Alliance. My heart and mains will always be Horde, and my nostalgia will always be Night Elves and Teldrassil. (The hideous BfA expansion tore my gaming psyche asunder. The pain I felt was visceral!)
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My friends played Horde, Horde was family and cool, and moos.
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I am so, so sorry. Such a beautiful memory of your loved ones, but utterly heartbreaking.
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When I started, I didnât understand what the alliance and horde were so I just picked the race that was cutest to me (gnome).
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It was like that scene in Braveheart where the irishman Steven walks up and blurts âIf I fight for you, will I get to kill Englishmen?â
That but substitute orcs for englishmen.
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Because they were pretty!
Kidding.
When I decided to actually play back in Cata as opposed to dabbling on the account I had set up for my son, I wanted something familiar and easy so, after looking around, I went with a human hunter as a âstarterâ character, as in one I would play to get used to everything before deciding what Horde character to play in order to join my sonâs guild and raid with them.
Then I feel in love with the World and that idea went completely out the window as I was having too much fun just exploring and questing around the World to rush.
Then it just seemed natural to stick with the Alliance.
Besides, they were pretty!
It wasnât until around 2020 that I finally made a Horde character. Now I have six Horde characters and ten Alliance characters that I play at will but I still tend to favor the Alliance characters as I find it easier to immerse in their headspaces.
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I prefer traditional âtolkienesqueâ fantasy overall, you know, humans, elves and dwarves fighting the evil monsters. I also started playing in Legion, so my first time ever experiencing Orgrimmar was the ugly heavily industrialized version introduced in Cata, in other words, I didnât like the aesthetics. With that said, I loved it in Classic, it felt a lot cozier than Stormwind.
I went alliance because the horde rp died. I know thereâs some hardcore wyrmrest players that say rp isnât dead, but it is. Org and silver moon use to be full, 24/7. Now itâs just that one crappy district where people line up and wait for someone to engage.
Cow people. Horde has cow people
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Dont think i had any interest in the grand story with factions. Pretty sure it defaulted as human warrior and i just went with it.
I chose Alliance in vanilla WoW because none of the original Horde races visually appealed to me back then. I was NE until Cataclysm, then switched to Worgens.
Many years later I changed to Horde because of Vulpera and because I wanted a different experience.
I loved the night elf vibe of being one with nature and living in a giant tree, and the Alliance was the only way to experience that. I envied the horde for receiving blood elves because I enjoyed their land just as much as the night elves, but by that time I was already invested in the Alliance.
If I had started playing in BC, thereâs a chance I would have gone Horde instead of Alliance.
Alliance are the good guys, Horde are the bad guys. I prefer the good guys. I have 3 Horde toons left and that will probably remain that way forever unless they get something very interesting or special to play. Just never really liked the Horde story or races with the exception of Blood Elf and Tauren which i still have both.
The Vulpera and Magâhar are interesting races without the baggage of the rest of the Horde but i donât see myself playing them unless they become available to the Alliance for whatever reason and i donât see that happening.
Lastly if they do make High Elves (Silver Covenant) ever available as a playable race i would consider moving my Blood Elves over to being High Elves along with rolling new ones. As it is if i was roll playing my Blood Elves they would be spies for the Alliance and the same for my Tauren.