Present. My Human Male Warrior in WoW was just an alt, but I loved him dearly. No matter what I tried, I always gravitated back to wearing the Stormwind guard armor for transmog. I think it must be a blood memory or something. I don't remember anything that could have influenced me into liking knights and castles, but it feels very natural anyway.

When I first played the original Baldur's Gate(and Shadows of Amn as well for that matter), I went all in on a vanilla Fighter who specialized in longswords. I was rewarded for my clever choice with early access to one of the best swords in the game Varscona even if I was too dumb as a kid to figure out how to survive the Nashkel mines. That was more or less the highlight of the game for me until years later when I had the wherewithal to actually understand and engage with the game's mechanics properly. But man, what a good time just thrashing Greywolf and feeling on top of the world with a cool magical sword in a land full of swords falling apart because of the iron crisis. Good times...

Me at the character selection screen of a game after not playing it for a few years: "Damn, which level 80 human male fighter was I playing last? Oh well, doesn't matter anyway." (clicks New Character, Human, Male, Fighter...)

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