"The Eternal Champion...not one who shows great honor, not one
who is fearless, not one who is loved by all...It is one who
would give all not because it feels right, but because it *is*
right."
				--Valar Bel'Solare

I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;
Maelstrom of passions in that hidden sea
Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me,
And in small compass the dark waters cram.
-- Mervyn Peake, Shapes and Sounds, 1941







Thirteen times thirteen, the steps to the sad giant's lair;
And the Chaos Shield lies there.
Seven times seven are the elder trees
Twelve times twelve warriors he sees
But the Chaos Shield lies there.
And the hero fair will the sad giant dare
And a red sword wield for the sad giant's shield
On a mournful victory day.






Three Kings in Darkness lie,
Gutheran of Org, and I,
Under a bleak and sunless sky-
The third Beneath the Hill
--Song of Veerkad
by James Cawthorn







It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody, and from the loose sleeves of his yellow gown emerge two slender hands, also the same colour of bone, resting on each arm of a seat which has been carved from a single, massive ruby.
--Michael Moorcock









Less certain of himself or his destiny than ever, the albino king must perforce bring his powers of sorcery into play, conscious that he has embarked upon a course of action by no means at one with his original conception of the way he wished to live his life. And now matters must be settled. He must begin to rule. He must become cruel. But even in this he will find himself thwarted.
--Michael Moorcock









Elric, of all the manifestations of the Champion Eternal, was to find Tanelorn without effort. And of all those manifestations he was the only one to choose to leave that city of myriad incarnations...
--Michael Moorcock










In which Mournblade returns to help decide an issue between Elric and the Lords of Chaos...
--Michael Moorcock











For the mind of Man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one...
And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.
--Michael Moorcock










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