The Elric Saga Part I

Michael Moorcock

Elric of Melnibone is an interesting character. Michael Moorcock’s antihero is a different sort of literary character, truly unlike any traditional fantasy hero I’ve encountered so far. He is a study of a contradictory character. He behaves in ways that sets him apart from the ordinary and it is his intent to always go against the grain. He is a physically weak albino who needs drugs to sustain him, yet he rules a nation without peer. He elects to show mercy to a traitor, if only to go against his and his people’s more bloodthirsty tendencies. He wields and masters dark magiks, yet he is a vassal to his patron Chaos Lord. He wields a magical runeblade as much as it wields him. He values friends, but he is often so quick to betray them.

status	Copy #1 (6985): in
genre	Fantasy » Epic Fantasy
publisher	Berckley Books
publish date	1972
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