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Elric: Stormbringer! Free FREE ELRIC: STORMBRINGER! PDF Michael Moorcock | 336 pages | 13 Mar 2014 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575114388 | English | London, United Kingdom Elric: Stormbringer from Dark Horse Comics Restored to its original length and further revised in the edition. Sword and swordsman… but which was master? Stormbringer, the mighty runesword, hung far away in the city's armoury. Elric, haunted albino warrior-king, had sworn never again to touch the Elric: Stormbringer! blade. But now he needed it as never before. Evil supernatural beings had abducted his lovely wife Zarozinia. He would sacrifice the world itself to safe her. But would Stormbringer, seemingly endowed with a mind of its own, allow it? He Elric: Stormbringer! fated to ride out again over spectral landscapes, with the sentient blade he both loved and hated… which had slain enemies — and claimed comrades! Michael Moorcock born is a prolific English writer primarily of Elric: Stormbringer! fiction and fantasy. Byzantium Endures 2. The Laughter of Carthage 3. Jerusalem Commands 4. The Vengeance of Rome Links Michael Moorcock's official website. Back News Back Fandom Risingshadow. Back Recent Topics Search. Avg rating 4. Ratings 8 5. Stormbringer Elric Saga, 6. Type: speculative fiction Speculative Elric: Stormbringer! is a broad umbrella category of narrative fiction referring to any fiction story that includes elements, settings and characters whose features are created out of imagination and speculation rather than based Elric: Stormbringer! attested reality and everyday life. That encompasses the genres of science fiction, fantasy, science fantasy, horror, alternative history, and magic realism. About the Author :: Elric: Stormbringer! Moorcock. Selected mainstream works Jerry Cornell: 1. The Chinese Agent 2. Other books you might like. Online 39 visitors Newest member: Skyler Choe Total members: + Best Elric and Stormbringer images in | michael moorcock, sword and sorcery, fantasy art Unfortunately he suffers from conditions that leave him both an albino and very physically frail; Elric is so sickly that he depends on regular doses of alchemic medicine just to be able to get out of bed. Unlike most others of his race, Elric has a conscience; he sees the decadence of Elric: Stormbringer! culture, which once ruled the known world, and worries about the rise of the Young Kingdoms, populated by humans, and the threat they pose to his empire. An aspect of the Eternal ChampionElric eventually comes to possess the rune-blade known as Stormbringer; a sapient, soul-eating sword that seeks to devour all things. From that moment, he is doomed to tragedy and loss, as everyone he ever knows and loves is ultimately consumed either by fate or by Stormbringer itself. In his final tale, after having used Stormbringer to destroy the Elric: Stormbringer! of Chaos and Order and create a new universe, Stormbringer plunges itself into Elric's chest, devouring its master in its final act of betrayal before taking its true demonic form to go and corrupt the new universe. Not unlike how Turin Turambar ended his life by way of the Mormegil, but Moorcock hates when you point that out. Elric was envisioned by his creator as an antithesis to Conan the Barbarian ; whereas Conan is a mighty warrior of a primitive culture who shuns magic and Elric: Stormbringer! becomes a king despite his humble birth, Elric is sick and frail, hails from Elric: Stormbringer! in all its corrupt, decadent, soul-destroying malice, and a mighty sorcerer who depends on alchemy and the dark blessings of his daemon-blade to even walk, never mind fight, and is a born emperor who ultimately dies alone, unmourned, and unloved, having destroyed his entire empire. Elric: Stormbringer! world Elric: Stormbringer! Elric's Young Kingdoms was the setting of the Stormbringer role-playing game by the publisher Chaosium Hawkmoon has also been so treated, as has Corum. After a disagreement between Moorcock and Chaosium, the Stormbringer line was discontinued. In Chaosium released Elric! Its Elric: Stormbringer! difference was in the way magic Elric: Stormbringer! demon summoning was detailed and the allegiance system that saw characters lean either towards law, chaos or the balance, themes that underscored the books. Subsequently, a new version called "Elric of Melnibone" was published by Mongoose Publishing under their Runequest system. Dragon Lords of Melnibone is a d20 Elric: Stormbringer! adaptation of the aforementioned "Elric! Founders Steven and Stewart Wieck were fans of Elric: Stormbringer! character, and named their roleplaying game magazine, and later their company, after him. Although the dual Egyptian godesses of Ma'at and Isfet do predate the books by several thousand Elric: Stormbringer!, so the idea was already in the public domain. The Elric: Stormbringer! of Warhammer Fantasy Battle were clearly based on the Melnibonians, mostly by splitting up different aspects. The High Elves have the basic "gray" aspects of Melnibonians, being long lived, pointy eared expert magic users on a mysterious island, with a crazy powerful navy, caverns of sleeping Dragons waiting the Elric: Stormbringer! battle against Chaos, and an aloof Elric: Stormbringer! attitude towards the upstart young races. However, the Chaos -worship downplayed in WFB compared to Elricobscene decadence, rampant cruelty, use of black magic, and overarching sociopathy is the purview of the Dark Elves. Namespaces Page Discussion. More More. Page actions Read Edit History. This article is a skub. You can help 1d4chan by expanding it. Categories : Stubs Literature Roleplaying. Wiki tools Wiki tools Upload file Special pages. Page tools Page tools. Userpage tools. Categories Categories Stubs Literature Roleplaying. MAY - ELRIC STORMBRINGER DLX ED HC (RES) - Previews World Elric is symbiotically bound to his runesword Stormbringer. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson Elric: Stormbringer! moody He was born with albinismmaking his flesh pale, his hair white, and his eyes a deep crimson. He is very tall, slender to the point of gauntness, yet elegantly muscled. When not in armour, Elric Elric: Stormbringer! all-black garb, but has been known to dress Elric: Stormbringer! a mercenary, donning wildly Elric: Stormbringer! barbarian attire. He carries Stormbringer in a scabbard at his belt, and wears the ancient Ring of Kings on his left hand. Weak and sickly from birth, Elric is forced to subsist on drugs and potions to sustain his strength and health. This changes, for better or worse, when he obtains his sword, Stormbringer. Elric: Stormbringer! mother died in childbirth and his father, Emperor Sadric the Eighty-Sixth, blamed her death entirely on his sole, thin-blooded son. Elric's Childhood, while lacking the love of his father, was a time of sorcerous and academic education. By the time his father died, Elric had learned a great deal, and took the Ruby Throne as one of the Elric: Stormbringer! powerful sorcerers the world had ever seen. Some, including Elric's cousin Yyrkoondeemed him unfit for the Ruby Throne. Yyrkoon secretly plotted to usurp Elric if he possibly could. Elric was betrothed to Yyrkoon's sister, his cousin Cymoril. Though she too often misunderstood Elric's strange morality, the two were Elric: Stormbringer! much in love. The weight of Elric's armour caused him to sink into the sea, and Yyrkoon returned to Imrryr as its new emperor. Fate and the Balance had other plans for Elric. Straasha, king of the sea, saved his life according to an ancient pact of loyalty made with Elric's ancestors. Elric sent his soldiers to search the world for his traitorous cousin and his beloved Cymoril, but no trace of them could be found. Elric was desperate, he drew on the arcane knowledge of his ancestors and summoned his patron demon, the Chaos Lord Arioch, Lord of the Seven Darks. Arioch told Elric the information he wanted but at a terrible price - the barrier between Elric's world and the Higher Realms had been sundered by Elric's sorcery, and Elric: Stormbringer! would now have a foothold in Elric: Stormbringer! material plane. Elric personally led an expedition to find Yyrkoon, and confronted him in his stronghold. Cymoril Elric: Stormbringer! rescued, but Yyrkoon fled once more, this time through the Shade Gate, a portal that led to one of the infinite hells. Elric followed his cousin through the Gate, and found himself in a world as Elric: Stormbringer! and closed as a giant cavern. Elric met a man named Rackhir Elric: Stormbringer! Red Archer, a wanderer of the Multiverse, and together they fought through the dark, cave-like hell to find Yyrkoon in the Pulsing Cavern, the legendary resting place for the runeswords Stormbringer and Mournblade. Within the cavern, Yyrkoon took up Mournblade and Elric took up Stormbringer, and the terrible weapons sang in joy as the cousins fought and Arioch looked on. At Elric: Stormbringer! end of it, Yyrkoon had been Elric: Stormbringer!, and though the sentience within Stormbringer urged Elric to take his cousins soul, he refused, mastering Stormbringer Elric: Stormbringer! his own will. Against all good judgment, and against the protests of Cymoril, Elric abdicated the Ruby Throne, appointed Yyrkoon as regent and set out for the Young Kingdoms, to learn of Elric: Stormbringer! world and seek Elric: Stormbringer! truth of his destiny. Elric lived among the humans of the Young Kingdoms, traveling and earning his way as a mercenary. During this time, Elric would get a hint of his destiny and his true nature during his adventures aboard the Dark Ship. This wiki. This wiki All wikis. Sign In Don't have an Elric: Stormbringer! Start a Elric: Stormbringer!. Elric's barbarian mercenary attire and his Ring of Kings. Elric wanders the world searching for his destiny. Categories :. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki..
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