![]() ![]() After the world-building the novels focus on Elric’s relationship with Stormbringer, a magical sword that can be a great force for good but also saps Elric’s strength while absorbing the souls of everyone it slays. In order to keep his position he relies on drugs (or ‘special herbs’) to keep him going while becoming a powerful sorcerer and summoner. ![]() Descendant of a royal lineage and a frail and weak albino, he finds himself ruling a violent race bent on torture and conquest. I would go with his Jerry Cornelius series of novels but that would be too obscure probably and the experimental approach Moorcock often takes in this series too inaccessible to a general audience.Įlric though is full blown fantasy. Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, later to be revealed as one of the many incarnations of Moorcock’s Eternal Warrior multi-persona, will probably be Moorcock’s everlasting contribution to popculture. ![]() Fantasy legend Elric of Melniboné is back in a European comic series endorsed by Michael Moorcock with the words ‘If I could go back, I would do it like this.’ ![]()
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