I actually play both factions, but this is my main, and he’s kind of the reason. I mean during Vanilla I had a human character called Vissari (Different server and account, long gone now), but Night Elves didn’t appeal to me. They weren’t quite…‘elf’ like as I thought of it. To quantify that statement, I’m talking Elves from myth and legend, not recent fantasy genres. I wanted something that was like the Redcaps, the Clurichaun, the grinning, beautiful yet utterly cruel leaders of Faerie warhosts, riding on steeds with ogres and orcs and goblins, Knuckers and Sprites.
I wanted those cruel Elves from legend.
Then out came TBC and I’ve never looked back. I could play the savage of soul but saintly of appearance elves from my people’s cultural myths.
Since then I got massively interested in the other Horde races, and have a character of every one of them, but equally I love some of the Alliance Ethos, and have pretty much a character of every one of them too, apart from Mechagnomes, but I will be making one for Shadowlands when the requirements are lifted.
I like both factions to be honest, because they appeal to me for different reasons, but I like the moral dichotomy of the Horde, are they “Just Monsters” or are they “Monsters -because-”. I like complex morality in my characters when I RP. I mean I do have a character on Alliance, who is absolute shining Lawful Good type mentality, a Draenei Vindicator, but he’s fun for when I want those games of being the -absolute- Good Guy.
Its the same themes I apply in LARP, My Wild Elf is an overall good guy, who is never randomly unkind, but is part of a tribal faction with a superiority complex, who selflessly works to better the survival of a fragile world, yet thinks nothing of conducting mass human sacrifices to do so.
I like the grey area, and Horde gave more chances to explore that on an RP realm.