By Choice We Stand

One horn. Fifteen banners. A thousand stories. One answer. FOR THE ALLIANCE! Our walls have fallen, stone by stone. We built them back around our home. A crown may break, a king may fall - The lion rises for us all. The mountain taught our hearts to hold. Three hammers ring through halls of old. When thunder answers from the deep, The vows of Ironforge we keep. Our World Tree burned; the heavens bled. We keep the names of all our dead. New branches drink the morning light; Our moonlit glaives still guard the night. Where others mourn a broken frame, We trace the fault and start again. No ruin gets the final say - We engineer another way. From Argus through the endless night, We bore our grief and kept the Light. No shattered world, no starless sky Could end the hope of the Draenei. Raise every banner - blue and gold! A thousand stories, one resolve! When one voice calls, we all reply - One earth below, one open sky! From root and stone, from star and sea, We stand as one, yet still stand free. Not born as one - by choice we stand! For Azeroth! FOR THE ALLIANCE! Behind our wall, the curse took hold. It gave us claws, but not our souls. Now Gilneas rings its bells once more - Both beast and human guard its shore. With open palm and measured breath, We weigh each road through life and death. For patience is not fear or flight - It is the strength to choose what’s right. Made to obey, then sealed in stone, We woke to choose a path our own. Five ancient powers flood the sky - We were made weapons. We choose why. Exiled for what we dared pursue, We felt the Void come clawing through. It whispers still - but every day, The Ren'dorei deny its sway. Through endless wars in starless night, We made our living flesh bear Light. No tyrant owns the flame we wield - We choose the cause, we choose the shield. Raise every banner - blue and gold! A thousand stories, one resolve! When one voice calls, we all reply - One earth below, one open sky! From root and stone, from star and sea, We stand as one, yet still stand free. Not born as one - by choice we stand! For Azeroth! FOR THE ALLIANCE! Where shadow, iron, magma meet, We melt old chains beneath our feet. The fire that once enslaved our clan Now fuels the hammers in our hands. The sea has taken blood and bone, Yet every tide still leads us home. When storm bells call through wind and rain, We take the weathered helm again. By flesh and brass, by gear and mind, Perfection is not one design. No tyrant gets to choose our frame - We shape ourselves; we own our name. Old edicts cracked beneath our feet; We heard the world-heart’s deeper beat. Not made for orders set in stone - We choose the path we call our own. Beneath the roots where lifeblood runs, We kept our vows away from suns. Then shadow found what we lived for - The Haranir hid no more. Not one blood. Not one crown. Not one homeland. Not one creed. Keep your name. Keep your freedom. Stand when another bleeds. An Alliance is a promise: No one faces night alone. Raise every banner - blue and gold! A thousand stories, one resolve! When one voice calls, we all reply - One earth below, one open sky! From root and stone, from star and sea, We stand as one, yet still stand free. Not born as one - by choice we stand! For Azeroth! FOR THE ALLIANCE! NOT BORN AS ONE! BY CHOICE WE STAND! FOR THE ALLIANCE! Not born as one… By choice we stand.