If you were liking the possibility that your Alliance toon can have a bunch of Orc slaves, I mean followers, you are out of luck.  Sounds as though followers will all be from the same faction, although this could change.

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Yes, there will be followers of other non player races (aka Arakkoa) for players to have in their Garrison (source)

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Yes, you can name your followers whatever you’d like, assuming it follows Blizzard’s naming guidelines.

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