World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion goes out of its way to make you—the nameless, wandering hero who’s nearly identical to 8 million other death knights, priests, paladins, and the like—feel like you are special.

Even before the expansion launched, it softened the field for this idea, through the deaths of heroes who had household names in Azeroth. Tirion Fordring, Vol’jin, and Varian Wrynn: poof, all gone in a flurry of green fire and (in at least two cases) horrible screaming. There’s no time to mourn the dead, however, because you’re in charge now.

You, yes you. The leader of the warriors, mages, hunters, rogues, or whatever other class you selected as far back as 11 years ago. Me? I’m the leader of the all the monks of Azeroth. The shamans, too, since I rolled a second character sometime in the many, many hours I’ve spent with Legion over the past few weeks.