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So yeah....who wants more Elric?

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So yeah....who wants more Elric?
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Want me to do the rest?
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Elric is one of my favorite things ever. So if you want to certainly.
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>>52347225
Cool. Also, by the end of this i'm gonna try and copy paste some relatively rare info about Earl Aubec.
Shit is pretty hard to find but some publisher has had to archive the info
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There is something about this old comic style that really grabs my attention.
Please and thank you.
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Anyone know how to copy paste info from google books?
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>I must warn you, I'm wicked tortured and broody
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Break.
Seriously though, if anyone has a way to copy paste text from google book previews, that would be great. Will try and find an alternate source to what i want to show.
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Think i got it.
Gonna post it after the storytime but i think you're gonna like it. This info hasn't been properly posted anywhere.
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Break.

Hit me with your favorite stories.
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>Yeah whatever bitch. I'm going to bed.
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Has anyone managed to read through the Second Ether trilogy? Been skimming all over it(don't care about the spoilers) and apparently Lucifer is connected to the Black Sword and went completely nuts after he tried to reconcile with God when he was given the Holy Grail after War Hound and the World's Pain and now worships the Original Insect
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do you have a source to grab this magnet link or something?
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Will post a mega when we're done. Plus, i'm gonna post something here that's verrryyy interesting concerning the mythos.
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And this story is done.
Have the mega.
https://mega.nz/#!Bt5mUKQQ!o38E0apv0GRFxc5WnJ0zP_0c_s4oraF2FZE0loB6gkA
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>>52348630
Ok so here goes.

The framing device for this whole thing is Master of Chaos/Earl Aubec of Malador/Earl Aubec and the Golem etc etc

And while you know it's connected to Elric, what you don't know is how this was supposed to be another series that tied directly into Elric, more so than Corum/Hawkmoon/Erekose

Here is that synopsis.

EARL AUBEC OF MALADOR

Outline for a series
of four fantasy novels

(1966)

EARL AUBEC, CHAMPION of Lormyr, Earl of Malador, first appeared in the [attached] story “Master of Chaos” (originally called “Earl Aubec and the Golem”) in Fantastic, May 1964.
“Master of Chaos” will not be incorporated into the novels, but is [enclosed] to give some idea of the character and background etc., of the projected series.

>Background

The world of Earl Aubec is The Age of the Bright Empire—the same as the world of Elric, only set some time earlier than the Elric stories. The Bright Empire is flourishing. It is the most powerful on Earth and the influence of the Dragon Princes of Imrryr is felt everywhere (though whenever possible they disdain contact with the race of true human beings of the Young Kingdoms). Elric’s ancestor, Gadric the Eleventh, moody son of Terhali, the Green Empress, sits on the Dragon Throne, close consort, it is rumoured, of the Dukes of Hell, particularly Arioch.
The Lords of Chaos, in fact, still have the greater part of the power over Earth. At the edges of the world, Chaos Unbound still exists (in “Master of Chaos,” Earl Aubec’s task was to make a little of that Chaosmatter stable).
The cosmology, therefore, is the same as the cosmology of the Elric stories, as is the basic geography [see attached map], but the Young Kingdoms have not yet risen to power and the Dreaming City of Imrryr dominates the world by virtue of her sorcery, her Dragon Masters, her golden battle-barges and her pact with Chaos.
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>Central Character

Earl Aubec of Malador is a big, powerful warrior in middle years, his sole companion his cat, who travels everywhere with him and has a great sense for danger when it threatens.
Aubec’s patron gods are the Lords of Law, and he has something of an ally in the sorceress Micella of Kaneloon whom he loves secretly and hopelessly, hardly daring to admit it to himself, for his loyalty, according to tradition, must be to the dead Queen Eloarde of Lormyr. (These characters also originally appear in “Master of Chaos.”)
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Events

Earl Aubec, deprived of his lands by the machinations of Queen Eloarde’s half-brother Aradard, is an exile, roaming the world, sought by Aradard’s assassins (only Aubec witnessed the murder of Eloarde by her half-brother’s men), selling his sword, ready for a chance to win the fortune that will enable him to finance an army that he can lead back to Lormyr. His one abiding hope is that he will be able to wreak vengeance on Aradard, restore the throne to Eloarde’s young son Prince Haminak (who is, in fact, Aubec’s son, too) whom Aubec believes is still alive, having smuggled him from the palace himself before Aradard’s men found the boy.
All Aubec’s motivations, therefore, involve his need to raise an army to attack Aradard, his willingness to rob, murder or in other ways destroy or discomfort Aradard’s men, his wish to find his lost son Haminak.
But Micella has other motivations. She knows that Aubec has a particular quality of character which makes him an able champion against the Lords of Chaos and their efforts to retain control of the Earth as their domain. While she can never convince Aubec of the fact that he is a somewhat extraordinary kind of man, she can sometimes help him in his ambitions concerning Aradard and Haminak and therefore where her interests and his self-interest combine, she can sway him to work on behalf of her masters, the Lords of Law.
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The first book, therefore, deals with these main events and concerns.
Aubec arrives in Tanelorn (also described in an earlier story about Rackhir the Red Archer, “To Rescue Tanelorn…” in Science Fantasy No. 56) which is a city on the edge of the Sighing Desert. Tanelorn shelters many outcasts and has a peculiar nature, in that neither the forces of Law nor Chaos have any influence over the inhabitants. Here Aubec learns from a man who has come to recruit mercenaries that an army is being raised in Hikach, capital city of Argimiliar (a near neighbour of Lormyr), with a view to attacking Kachor, chief port of Lormyr. Aubec himself, as a much respected tactician and leader of warriors, is offered a fifth share of all loot if he will come in with the Argimilites.
Aubec has no love for the folk of Argimiliar, for they are the Lormyrians’ traditional foes, but the prospect of striking a blow at Aradard and raising money for his own army convinces him that he will throw in with the Argimilites.
In two weeks a boat will be leaving the port of Shad in Ilmiora. All the warriors must arrive by that time. The boat will take them to Hikach.
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Several days later, as he readies himself for the journey, Aubec is approached by Micella the sorceress of Kaneloon. She tells him that the Melnibonéans, under the direction of the Lords of Chaos, are fomenting civil war amongst the Young Kingdoms. The raid on Kachor will spark this off and soon all the Young Kingdoms will be at war, threatening the development of the power of true human beings and enabling the Lords of Chaos to increase their power. Aubec must not help the Argimilites. He must, instead, try to stop the raid.
Aubec will have none of this. He is wary of the sorceress, knowing that her professed motives and her actual motives are not always the same. He sets off for Shad, arrives and boards the ship.
Their voyage takes them across the Dragon Sea, close to the Isle of the Dragon, Melniboné.
A storm—evidently of supernatural origin—blows up. The ship is wrecked on the dreadful coast of the Dragon Isle where no true human being would willingly set foot. Aubec and a small party of warriors survive. Everyone, including Aubec, is extremely fearful. Aubec sets them to building a raft, hoping that he will be able to get off the Dragon Isle before the inhuman Melnibonéans discover the intruders.
But it is too late. Dragon riders appear in the sky. Some of the warriors run and are destroyed by the flaming venom. Aubec stands his ground. The dragons land. Dyvim Kang, Dragon Prince, dismounts and haughtily approaches the little band, questioning them.
“Likely meat to feed our lord Arioch,” smiles one of the inhumanly handsome Melnibonéans. “Or perhaps they will furnish some more elaborate form of entertainment to lighten King Gadric’s gloom.”
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Dyvim Kang silences the man. He is interested in Aubec. Perhaps he recognizes in Aubec that peculiar quality of character already noted by Micella. “Are you a sorcerer?” he asks. “You have not the sorcerer’s manner?”
“I disdain sorcery,” answers Aubec, “just as I disdain all that Melniboné stands for. But my quarrel is not with the Bright Empire. Let me go on about my own business and you concern yourselves with yours. A small skiff’s all I need to get me to Hikach.”
“We are not in the habit of dispensing gifts to human folk,” Dyvim Kang says. “Why do you journey to Hikach?”
Aubec briefly tells him of the projected raid. Dyvim Kang nods. He already appears to know something of the Argimilites’ plans. He seems half-prepared to let Aubec have his skiff, but then thinks better of it and orders that the few remaining warriors be used for sport and Aubec be brought before the Dragon Throne.
There follows Aubec’s first confrontation with King Gadric the Eleventh, whose deep green pupilless eyes are a reminder that his mother was the near-immortal Terhali, the Green Empress. Gadric, too, is impressed with Aubec and summons a “friend.” The friend ap-pears—actually Lord Balan of Chaos—a youth of frightening beauty. Balan knows of Aubec, knows that the earl serves Donblas of Law (though Aubec is not aware of this). They ascertain that Aubec really is bent on aiding the Argimilites and this amuses them greatly. It dawns on Aubec that Micella was right—this raid is the creation of Melniboné and her gods. But Aubec, always obstinate, refuses to consider the implications. He will continue with his original plans.
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Aubec, by sorcerous means that he finds distasteful, is transported to Hikach. Here he prepares to sail against Kachor. The fleet sets sail. Micella appears with evidence that his son is held by King Ronon of Argimiliar—to ensure Aubec’s good faith should he change his mind en route.
Aubec is in a quandary. He doesn’t know whether to trust Micella’s word or not, whether to continue with the raid or rescue his son.
“Even if I did turn back now,” he tells Micella, “Ronon would have word of my coming and Haminak would be put to the sword—”
“—or worse,” agrees Micella. But she then tells him that he has an ally in a “certain person possessed of considerable power.”
“Why should this person aid me?”
“Because you aid him,” she replies.
Aubec is more than ordinarily suspicious as she hands him a bracelet of oddly glowing metal and tells him to wear it. Instead he casually places it as a collar around the neck of his cat. “Whose bracelet is this?” he asks. “Yours?”
“No.” She smiles mysteriously. “Where would you wish to be now?”
“Naturally, I would wish to be in Hikach, madam!” he replies pettishly.
The ship fades. He is in the streets of Hikach, his cat looking as startled as he feels. He is furious, convinced he has been duped by Micella. The cat runs off in fright. Aubec decides to investigate Ronon’s castle and manages to sneak in. Searching the castle at night he can find no trace of his son and is doubly convinced of Micella’s treachery.
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Seized suddenly by Ronon’s guards, Aubec fights his way free. But then he is trapped by Ronan’s tame Pan Tang sorcerer. Ronon is furious. Aubec’s son is not in the castle—the sorcerer has seen to that. He is in the city of Nieva, in the Argimilian hinterland, bound by spells. Now the boy will perish!
Ronon has Aubec chained in his armour over a slow fire. “We are going to cook you in your own shell.”
The sorcerer leaves for Nieva to deal with the boy.
Ronon glowers. Aubec’s turncoat trick might well have lost him the spoils of Kachor.
Aubec roasts. He is half-dead when his cat arrives, somewhat sheepishly, having found his master at last. Aubec decides to try out the bracelet and orders himself free. The chains drop off him. He uses the brazier as a weapon to fight Ronon’s guards, gets his own great sword back, mounts a horse, the cat clinging to his shoulder, and rides for Nieva.
But in Nieva the sorcerer has gone, taking Aubec’s son with him, for the sorcerer has plans to use the boy for his own purposes, as a pawn in a plot to rob Ronon of the Treasure of the Pikaraydians, which Ronon himself stole from his neighbouring monarch in the last great border battle on the banks of the River Jepchak. By holding the Pikaraydian Treasure (which has a mystical significance as well as a material value) Ronon ensures that he keeps Pikarayd in thrall. The sorcerer knows that with the Treasure he will have power over both Ronon and Pikarayd. But he needs Aubec’s help in his scheme and has thus kidnapped the boy with a view to ensuring that Aubec will work for him (he has heard that Aubec was on his way).
Aubec meets the sorcerer and reluctantly agrees to aid him.
The Pikarayd Treasure lies in Ronon’s secret vaults hidden in the caverns of the Shivering Cliffs that flank the River Marr far to the south of Nieva.
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Aubec and his cat set off for the Shivering Cliffs, Aubec unreasonably blaming his present plight on Micella, for he suspects her hand in the plot since Kaneloon is not far from the Shivering Cliffs.
He reaches the Shivering Cliffs and enters battle with the various sorcerous and semi-sorcerous guardians (the Pan Tang sorcerer has given him a couple of protective runes), eventually reaching the Treasure. Lashing the treasure chests to the backs of the strange half-human creatures he has released at the same time, Aubec begins the slow journey back to Nieva. Soon he will be reunited with his son. He is also considering a scheme whereby, once he has his son, he can turn the tables on the sorcerer and get the Treasure for himself, thus enabling him to raise an army against Aradard.
On the second night of his journey back, he stops at the walled town of Oonak-Rass.
Unbeknownst to Aubec, Count Palag Fhak and his men have been trailing him. Palag Fhak is the cleverest and most courageous of Aradard’s assassins. He had heard that Aubec was in the Southlands and has at last tracked him down.
In a tavern Aubec’s cat warns him of the danger. Aubec is set upon by Palag Fhak’s men. There is a brutal fight. Wounded, Aubec manages to escape from Oonak-Rass with the best part of the treasure train, running into the night.
Count Palag Fhak pursues him, but he manages to keep ahead of the assassins, eventually getting back to the tower where he has agreed to meet the sorcerer.
To ensure that the sorcerer keeps his part of the bargain, Aubec has left his treasure train hidden in a forest. He will tell the sorcerer where the Treasure is when he sees his son free. The sorcerer is disconcerted. Palag Fhak’s men attack the tower.
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There is a big battle, involving the assassins in fighting the sorcerer and the minions he summons from the nether regions. Aubec uses the confusion to get to the room where his son is kept.
He embraces the boy and then lets out a shout of horror.
The sorcerer has duped him. The boy is nothing more than a changeling—a creature created by sorcery—a simulacrum of the actual child. Aubec weeps and returns to have his vengeance on the sorcerer, who tells him that there was no real child. Ronon had him create the mindless and soulless changeling. Aubec destroys the sorcerer and leaves Palag Fhak to be devoured by the last and mightiest of the sorcerer’s creatures. Aubec wants only vengeance on Ronon now, for the terrible trick played on him.
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He returns to Hikach just as the defeated fleet is docking. Ronon is furious. Aubec is again captured on the quayside but notes that there are several Pikaraydian ships there, full of evil-tempered Pikaraydian sailors who have joined the venture only because Ronon has forced them to. Aubec tells them that the Treasure of Pikarayd is no longer in Ronon’s keeping. If they aid him, he will tell them where it is.
A battle begins, with most of the mercenaries siding with Aubec and the Pikaraydians against Ronon.
Ronon is slain and his city is sacked.
Micella appears, telling Aubec that Ronon was the chief threat to the uneasy stability of the Southern Young Kingdoms. Now Ronon is dead, the main threat is over. But the Lords of Chaos are still scheming to create more trouble.
Aubec is sour. He has been cheated of a reconciliation with his son. He has lost the Treasure of Pikarayd. He has been duped and used as a pawn by half a score of different interests. All he has is his cat and the ridiculous bracelet, which he mistrusts.
Micella begs him to join forces with her, telling Aubec that it is in his own interest. But Aubec will have none of her.
Completely unimpressed that he has been the means of stopping a destructive war, Aubec rides off with his cat on his shoulder, still bent on finding his lost son and the means of having his vengeance on his old enemy Aradard.
As he goes, Micella smiles to herself as she sees the sun glint on the collar that the cat still wears.
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>Rest of the Series

Through three further books—The Chronicle of Earl Aubec—we will trace Aubec’s adventures, his quest for his son and his attempts to avenge Eloarde. Gradually the issues will build until the final book where he is responsible for exiling the Lords of Chaos from Earth and sowing the seeds that will eventually lead to the decline of Melnibonéan power: The formation of the Lormyrian Confederacy which throws off the shackles of the Bright Empire.
This will also leave room for further tales concerning The Age of the Bright Empire, gradually, perhaps, leading up to The Age of the Young Kingdoms and the earlier adventures of Elric of Melniboné.
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And that's what i got.
Ya like it?
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And just to throw you all off, this may as well be considered canon.
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Where is this coming from?

>All he has is his cat and the ridiculous bracelet, which he mistrusts.

Into it.
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>>52348909
Originally, from Elric in the Dream Realms apparently. From the looks of it, it's an outline for a series that was never made.
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Do you have The Vanishing Tower or Bane of the Black Sword, by any chance? Those are the only ones I'm missing from the First Comics series.
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Oh yeah.
You don't want Bane though. Sweet child, i do not wish to inflict such horror upon you.
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Is it that bad? The rest of them are pretty good.
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Goes from bad to "We paid this person in nickels and empty beer bottles.

LOOK AT THIS SHIT
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I knew the reprints were bad, but this looks like Xiombarg took a shit on the page!
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>I knew the reprints were bad,
You mean the Titan books? I got them. They're good. Really good. This is from an original scan that was just fucked. Still doesn't excuse the FUCKING ARTWORK.
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And FYI, this volume hasn't been covered yet and i really do not mind if it doesn't. The Vanishing Tower is being released in June i think. This shit needs to be buried or released as a bundle with Vol 3 of the new series because this art is BAD
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>>52348674
Taking all of this into account, would this be a good setting for a campaign?
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>>52349195
Oh well. Thanks for posting all this, anyway. I'd repay you with some Savage Sword of Conan, but all I have are physical copies and no scanner.
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>>52349325
Elric is almost always a good setting for a campaign. Especially during the glory days of the bright empire.
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.....you think?
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Bumping for this one. Really want to know if anyone else read the Second Ether. That series looks completely fucking insane.
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>>52349590
No one?

Oh well.

Well let me ask this then.
What wins in a fight?
Stormbringer VS All four Chaos Gods of Warhammer

Both of em are at full power. That means Chaos Gods are running wild and corrupting shit and Stormbringer has merged with its twin and become the Cosmic Archetype of The Black Sword wielded by the pure manifestation of The Eternal Champion.

What wins?
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>>52349860
Kind of impossible to say given the differences in the worlds and how they function.
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Thanks again for all the comic dumping, OP. I spent a whole evening catching up on them.
I dub thee Melnibanon for your trouble.
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>>52350086
>Melnibanon
Thanks.

Don't forget that tomorrow, we're doing the Vanishing Tower. Maybe even tonight but i doubt it. Didn't go to the gym today so i kinda feel like going for a midnight jog.

That's fucking right. We're going all the way to STORMBRINGER.
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>>52346779
I want links for the ones you've already posted.

Have links?
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>>52346779
I fucking love Elric. Thank you anon!
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https://mega.nz/#!o0BH0Tza!qaVvjykARBThR3wZQ-eUgeeapPclQW2_z_r1fd8zouw

https://mega.nz/#!o0BH0Tza!qaVvjykARBThR3wZQ-eUgeeapPclQW2_z_r1fd8zouw

https://mega.nz/#!Bt5mUKQQ!o38E0apv0GRFxc5WnJ0zP_0c_s4oraF2FZE0loB6gkA

https://mega.nz/#!Y4oTlajY!h-IFTLgYwQ6h47Yj8MDn9PFwOuidbvfXxoAUOmZSbho

IS THIS MY PARADISE?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IF9BMvhfGI
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>Michael Moorcock

This guy was a big influence on the band Hawkwind and they used to invite him to gigs to spout poetry between songs. He was so shy his voice would go all high and he'd just emit a high pitched mumble but cause everyone was out their minds on acid they loved it
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>>52350238
Woops, double posted one

https://mega.nz/#!d5gCgapK!lAVqoxIyh76uGpJQ00nxEmKoGVqNEK7F3L8N69GPyew
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>>52350256
He seemed to do okay on the live version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STNrzt5jKvo&t

Now begins the tale of Elric
proud prince of ruins
who bore The Black Sword...
Here is the Chronicle of that albino lord
Who came to be called The White Wolf
Who was called The Kinslayer
Who was called Womanslayer
Who was doomed to be torn
between Chaos and Law
Who was born to be the pawn
of the Cosmic Balance
Who was at once, more his own master
than any who had lived before
And was at the same time slave
to bloodshed, cruelty, and war
Listen, listen now....
Listen to the tale of how
the White Wolf came by his Weird
Listen to how Elric earned
The Bane of The Black Sword
Elric of Melnibone
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
Elric
Who battled to bring about the End Of Time
Elric
Who bore the sentient sword Stormbringer
And who killed the only two mortal women he ever loved
This is his sad, his terrible
Aye, and his heroic Saga
The Saga men call
The Chronicle of The Black Sword.....
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Real quick info dump for those that aren't in the know.

It's hinted that Gaynor the Damned is an Eternal Champion that went more wrong than Erekose and while serving a corrupt version of Law called the Singularity, his true ambitions is to either control the Multiverse and reign over both Law and Chaos or destroy everything and throw all of reality into the Void.
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>>52346779
makes me think of Ralph Bakshis wizards. I like it
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>>52351009
Bit of an interesting comparison but k.
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>>52350258
Thanks, buddy. Much appreciated.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKNaIXtBZQ
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>>52350507
>Gaynor the Damned
kinda faggy name desu
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>>52352846
>doesn't appreciate the majesty of gaynor's scintillating britches

what are you, some kind of queer?
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>>52347313
You can't just TELL me it's a tragedy! That makes me sad!
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>>52347482
Some of this art is just so weird.
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>>52348055
That's some pretty sick bant, 2bf
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>>52348151
>casters: BTFO
>martials: BTFO
>gish: Master Race.
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>>52350256

Didn't he also write songs for Blue Oyster Cult?
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>>52354967
Some of the best songs at that.Veteran of a thousand psychic wars and the black blade is some of the best blue Oyster cult songs.
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>>52346779
Alright. So, I'm looking to read the stories in chronological order. Anybody have a complete list?
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>>52355502
Particularly, I'd like to read them in order, in graphic novel form, if possible.

Any advice?
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>>52355629
Links are up in the thread.
Elric of Melnibone->Sailor OTSOF-> The Dreaming City->Weird of the White Wolf.

Rest are yet to be posted.
There's also the new french series that so far, is a retelling of Elric of Melnibone
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>>52357267
Ah, yeah, I've downloaded a bunch of them from elsewhere, was trying to figure out how they fit together.

I've mostly sussed it out in the past few hours though.

Currently the ones I'm unsure where they fit in are "The Balance Lost", and "Making of a Sorceror"
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>>52357440
>Making of a Sorceror
Set before "Of Melnibone
>The Balance Lost
Fits nowhere. It's essentially noncanon and it isn't even an Elric story primarily.
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>>52357457
Where does vol. 2 of the TITAN series start? Seas of Fate?
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>>52357557
Vol 2 IS Seas of Fate
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>>52357457
Is there a Stormbringer comic after Bane of the Black Sword, like I'm seeing in the novel order?
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>>52357572
In both the 1980s run and the new one?

I just got to this thread now, read a few pages, and downloaded a bulk torrent. the torrent isnt well organized though.
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>>52357573
Yes
>>52357580
>In both the 1980s run and the new one?
There are two Stormbringers.
One is the original book and its comic which is chronologically, the final part of the Elric saga. And the other is Vol 2 of the French adaptation covering the second part of the FIRST book.
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>>52357572
>>52357596
>There's a stormbringer comic as the finale to the series
>One I haven't been able to find yet)...
Is it the one from Dark horse from the late 90s? It seemed unrelated, due to the decade of separation and different people.
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/elric-stormbringer/4050-6101/

>second part of the FIRST book
Wait. Didn't you just say that Titan Comics Elric Vol 2 "Stormbringer" is Seas of Fate, just like the one from the '80s?

Is there a "Book 2: The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)" or "Book 6: The Revenge of the Rose (1991)" Comic book that I can't find, or did the comics skip them?
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>>52357635
>Is it the one from Dark horse from the late 90s? It seemed unrelated, due to the decade of separation and different people.
That's the one. It is related since P. Craig Russel always wanted to wrap up the series but a falling out occurred with Roy Thomas. and when First/Pacific went under, the project was stuck until Russel and Moorcock decided to wrap it up.
>Titan Comics
Titan Comics is the distributor of the French ones, they aren't the production company. That's Glenat BD.

>Is there a "Book 2: The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)" or "Book 6: The Revenge of the Rose (1991)" Comic book that I can't find, or did the comics skip them?
There aren't any because the comics were made BEFORE those books were even written. The last canon Elric comic adaptation before the French one, was Stormbringer and arguably "Making of a Sorcerer"
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>52357635
>52357664
>>One I haven't been able to find yet)
Also, don't worry about that. Give it a couple of days.
It will happen.
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>>52357676
>>52357635
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>>52357664
Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation.

So, to clarify. The Glenat BD version.

Vol 2 is *More* Elric of Melnibone, or is it Seas of Fate?

Organizing my newfound Elric Collection for reading in detail, because I wont end up going through all of them at the speed you guys are going, you're going faster than me.
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>>52357714
>Vol 2 is *More* Elric of Melnibone, or is it Seas of Fate?
More of Melnibone
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>>52357719
Gotcha.

Dreaming City:

https://rossonl.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/how-to-read-the-elric-saga-publication-order-vs-chronology-ii/

Not in the novel chronology...

Still between Seas of Fate and Weird of White Wolf?
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>>52357735

>Still between Seas of Fate and Weird of White Wolf?

Yes. Because The Dreaming City isn't a novel. It's a short story that's also the first Elric story ever made.
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>>52357741
The 1961 one I came across elsewhere.

I thought it was a Novella.

Okay. Still, strange to me they didn't include it in the list. But It also bugs me when people act like The Witcher starts with Blood of Elves rather than Last Wish or Season of Storms

So, is this roughly correct?
00 Making of a Sorceror
01 Elric of Melniboné
02 Fortress of the Pearl
03 Sailor on the Seas of Fate
03.5 The Dreaming City
04 The Weird of the White Wolf
05 The Vanishing Tower
06 Revenge of the Rose
07 The Bane of the Black Sword
08 Stormbringer
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>>52357766
Yep.

I'm still wondering if i should bombard you with the other stuff as well like the Von Beks.
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>>52357781
Sure! Load me up.

I really wanna make sure I go through it all chronologically though.

The extent of my knowledge of Elric prior today was a single readthrough of Elric! the RPG core book a few years back, followed by Stormbringer 4e RPG Corebook.
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>>52357793
>I really wanna make sure I go through it all chronologically though.
Oh you poor child. Chronology will kill you.
Ok, i ain't gonna give you the rest because it's a mess in terms of chronology. Just keep in mind to read The War Hound and the World's Pain. Beyond just being a good story, it introduces certain key story elements that would end up being important later down the line.
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>>52357808
>The War Hound and the World's Pain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_von_Bek

Oh, I see.

This isn't part of Elric/Stormbringer, it's part of the large Eternal Champion universe, yeah?

Will I miss anything important by reading all the Elric stuff, and then looking at any other Eternal Champion series I want to read afterward?
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>>52357829
>Will I miss anything important by reading all the Elric stuff, and then looking at any other Eternal Champion series I want to read afterward?
No, Preferably that's what you should do to begin with. Start on Elric and then move forward.
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>>52357838
Is there a good Elric World Guide/Companion you would recommend to me, as an addition to all these Elric Comics I just downloaded?
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>>52357838
>>52357829

Even though Moorcock himself isn't particularly fond of it, I personally recommend the Hawkmoon series.

The Bastable-books are good, but preachy on occasion.
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>>52357849
>>52357849
None that i know of. I think the Stormbringer set from Chaosium has some fluff.
Any other anon that can help out here?
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>>52357878
I think the old Chaosium ones are all that there is.

Maybe some by Green Ronin too?
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>>52357878
>>52357896
Is there a particular Chaosium book you'd recommend?

I only really read through the core rulebook, and I don't even remember if there was much world detail in it.
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>>52357914
Not really.
I only have a bunch of old books from the late 1980's and 1990's.
But pretty much all and any of the old Stormbringer-books should hold some tidbits of interest for you.

The basic rulebook in itself holds a lot of useful ifo and trivia about the world.
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>>52358035
I'm really surprised no one bothered to update it in over a decade.
I know Elric has waned in popularity since his hey day in the early 80s but you would think he would be more well known seeing as how heavily influenced the entire genre was from the series.
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