A taste of the past

WoW Insider wrote an article about a dog.  Well, Dog.  If you've done your Tillers work and built your farm, you probably have Dog.  The gist of the post is, what's going to happen to Dog once we leave our farms forever?

Dog is such a good dog.

Well, obviously the answer is "it's going to stay there, unchanging, until WoW goes offline or something awful happens to Pandaria in a future patch."  Yes, yes, once the expansion is over, nothing changes.  Preserved in amber.  But still.

So I got to thinking.  What if Blizzard instituted a new faction -- the Preservers -- and a series of weekly quests, offered by various figures from our history?  Maybe even a pool of them, a different quest each week, one or two from each expansion?  Send us back to Outland to visit with A'dal or Honor Hold or the Wildhammers in Shadowmoon, maybe.  Send us back to Northrend to pick up a quest from Dalaran or Valgarde.  Send us back to Vale or Valley to check in on the recovery effort.  Nothing too complicated, just "go and check on this and make sure it's still okay," or "hey, we're having a little trouble with this old raid boss," or "we need you to grow something on your farm for us."  Just a reason to go back, a reason to revisit old friends and faces.

What's clutch is that the Preservers offer rewards that are strictly cosmetic.  A mount, pets, gear, fluff consumables.  Maybe even portal stones to the various old content at Exalted.

Heck, you could even just have Preservers quest-givers in the faction cities that give breadcrumb quests to some of the old dailies.  Say, a weekly quest that tells you to go do 5 daily quests from Outland content.  You even get to pick which quests you do, so if you're grinding Netherwing or Skyguard or Ogri'la, you're all set.  Do them all in one day or over the course of several days.  Whatever.

I sure haven't seen enough of this guy >_>

It'd be low on resources to code and it'd keep old content vaguely relevant after the leveling process was done.  Win/win.  Anyone else think this'd be cool?