To me, Miniwing!

So there's this quest in World of Warcraft called Skywing. You happen upon an NPC bird who, well, i'll let the quest text speak for itself:

Skywing flutters around you.

You get the feeling he wants you to follow him.

So you follow this fucking bird around a fucking village where sentient human/bird things try to beat the crap out of you while Skywing there attempts to find "something". After some amount of time Skywing finds what he is looking for, presumably, turns into a human/bird thing, thanks you, and is off on his merry way.

I tell you this not to stress the engaging and well-crafted story of the quest (that's sarcasm), but rather to focus on the rewards for this quest. For, you see, not only do you get reputation, experience/gold, and a piece of armor but you ALSO get a mother-fucking pet bird.

I had forgotten how absurd things can be in WoW; how after escorting what may have been some sort of demi-bird-god-thing around a village so that it might, let's say, save an entire race of beings, an NPC will thank you by handing you a pet bird. Named Miniwing. Who follows you around for the rest of its life.

Something about that situation endears the game to me. I do not know exactly why this is the case. But for some reason I love the idea that after escorting a bird around a village of bird people the reward to be given will include a pet bird who just follows you around forever to remind you of that time you escorted a bird through a village of bird people.