Stormwind is the capital city of the Alliance in World of Warcraft, Blizzard's 2004 MMORPG, and its theme appears on the game's official soundtrack credited to composers Jason Hayes, Tracy W. Bush, Derek Duke and Glenn Stafford. The track plays in the city's districts and has become shorthand for Alliance pride across two decades of gaming culture. Streamers and editors now borrow the twelve-second excerpt to lend instant fantasy weight to videos, from raid highlights to ironic edits where an everyday scene gets a royal treatment.