Can Characters played by the same person know each other?

[Jonoth]

I let some characters know each other. In a game previous to this I duel-boxed a pair of friends (Remyl my dwarf was one of them, Jonoth the other). The toughest thing for me was accidentally putting lines in the wrong person's mouth, which was seldom, but since they were friends I could play it off as one predicting what the other would say as a close friend might. The other tough thing was moving around, though using follow would ease that. Currently I have Remyl as a cousin of Kerana, but no other major connections (Bruhara and Jonoth are kinda cousins, but Jonoth is being rewritten for Cataclysm so they will most likely lose this connection).

[Grimnir]

There are 28,000 people in Dun Morogh, 2,800 of which are gnomes. I'd find it odd if there was any individual of the region who knew of every single gnome, much less all of its residents!

Which isn't saying that you can't have your characters know one another. It's just that being in the same region shouldn't be the sole justification!

Hmmm that's true. I had forgotten that the populations are larger than Blizzard is able to have in the game. But to counter, wouldn't it be true that the usual character has more renown than a generic NCP. Just given the fact that a lot (not all of course) of player's characters are able to make a name of themselves through the gameplay that Blizard has set up for WoW.

You don't need to worry though, I'm not really that interested in having my characters know each other; and I'm certainly not going to focus my RPing on it. I just always like the idea of referencing, I guess that's the best word to describe it.

[Azheron]

There are 28,000 people in Dun Morogh, 2,800 of which are gnomes. I'd find it odd if there was any individual of the region who knew of every single gnome, much less all of its residents!

Which isn't saying that you can't have your characters know one another. It's just that being in the same region shouldn't be the sole justification!

wouldn't it be true that the usual character has more renown than a generic NCP.

Not at all. I actually like to think that I'm basically the same level as the NPCs, we, as characters, are nothing special in the world.

[Ben]

My characters know each other, through a storyline I had going earlier on. They all hate each other, basically. It's quite fun if you RP two characters that interact with the same group of people [and are very different]

[Delta]

Expunged.

[Piroska]

Back on Feathermoon a few years back, the vast majority of my characters were in the same guild; it was my primary source of roleplay at the time, so all of my girls got tossed into there. As a result, they knew one another even though they never interacted with one another in-game.

I wrote a series of short stories once about the morning before a field exercise. It was a "day in the life" take of the guild as a whole and each of my characters. I wrote about their interactions with one another, what they thought of each other, and just generally about each of them. It was a lot of fun.

When I write stories (particularly my long story regarding my Forsaken Cili before she died), I do throw in little cameos. For example, my youngest brother and I had a pair of trolls a while back. They make an appearance in Booty Bay when the merry band of adventurers get stranded in Stranglethorn Vale. My brother's gnome mage accidentally bumped into one of them and I think that they considered nomming on him when no one was around. Nothing ever came of it, but it was a fun little unknowing interaction between my characters and his.

It's all the same world. It would be reasonable that sometimes, somewhere, they crossed paths with one another. Do they necessarily know each other? No, but sometimes it's fun to have that sort of connection.

i don't believe anybody here would do that, but similarly, what's stopping people?

The rules. Any member playing like that would most likely get a swift boot to the butt, a warning, and -- depending on the severity of the infraction -- a temporary suspension of his account. We take metagaming very seriously on Conquest of the Horde.