Elric is depicted standing outside the Gates of Tanalorn.

A percentile skill-based system, BRP was used as the basis for most of the games published by Chaosium, including Stormbringer, Worlds of Wonder, Call of Cthulhu, Superworld, Ringworld, Elfquest, Hawkmoon, Elric !, and Nephilim.

* Elric and Eternal Champion, two series by Michael Moorcock, is one of many who offer Chaos-Evil (- Hell ) and Uniformity-Good (- Heaven ) as equally unacceptable extremes which must be held in balance.

" In an interview in 1986, Ken St Andre stated that " my conception of the T & T world was based on The Lord of The Rings as it would have been done by Marvel Comics in 1974 with Conan, Elric, the Gray Mouser and a host of badguys thrown in.

Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by Michael Moorcock, and the antihero of a series of sword and sorcery stories centering in an alternate Earth.

Later novels by Moorcock mark Elric as a facet of the Eternal Champion.

Elric is described by his creator, in the first book, Elric of Melniboné, as follows:

Unlike most others of his race, Elric possesses something of a conscience ; he sees the decadence of his culture, and worries about the rise of the Young Kingdoms, populated by humans ( as Melniboneans do not consider themselves such ) and the threat they pose to his empire.

It is wielded by the doomed albino emperor Elric of Melniboné.

Stormbringer ’ s hunger for souls is such that it frequently betrays Elric by creating a bloodlust in his mind, turning in his hands and killing friends and lovers.

Stormbringer has a " brother " sword named Mournblade, which was at one time wielded by Elric ’ s cousin and enemy Yyrkoon.

Elric and Stormbringer kill Yyrkoon, and no further mention is made of Mournblade until it is later disclosed that it was recovered by the Seers of Nihrain, to be wielded by Elric's cousin, Dyvim Slorm.

They present it to Elric and explain that the runeblades were designed to be wielded by those with Melnibonéan royal blood as a check against the might of the Dead Gods of Chaos.

Elric summons others of Stormbringer ’ s demonic race ( also in the form of swords ) to fight against a number of Dukes of Hell, brought to the Young Kingdoms by Jagreen Lern, theocrat of Pan Tang.

* The song " Borrowed Time " by the NWOBHM band Diamond Head on their Borrowed Time album deals with Elric and is told from his point of view.

Characters from the Cornelius novels show up in much of Moorcock's other fiction: " The Dancers at the End of Time " series has a character called Jherek Carnelian who is the son of Lord Jagged of Canaria, and there are several hints in the series that Lord Jagged may be a guise of Jerry Cornelius ; the Cornelius-series character Una Persson also appears in the " Dancers " series and the Oswald Bastable books, and may also be the character Oona in the later Elric books ; Colonel Pyat has his own non-SF series of books by Moorcock, beginning with Byzantium Endures.

The first Elric stories were published before The Silmarillion, so the detail of the black sword ( s ) may have been conceived independently by both writers.

He then sees the metaphorical " hand reaching across the stars " described by the Technomage Elric.

In Bloodlust ( 1991 ), a heroic-fantasy world inspired by characters such as Conan and Elric, the gods have incarnated themselves into weapons with great magical powers, and exist in a symbiotic relationship with their human wielders.

One-shots ( by Jim Starlin and Arthur Suydam among others ) became more common, and tolerable sales on Elric of Melniboné ( by Roy Thomas, P. Craig Russell and Michael T. Gilbert ), stumbled when First Comics acquired the rights, putting Pacific in the awkward position of continuing as distributor on a comic from a rival publisher that they had helped promote.

Russell's first Elric story, the Roy Thomas scripted " The Dreaming City ", was published by Marvel Comics in 1982 as Marvel Graphic Novel # 2, following initial publication of the first half of the graphic novel in Epic Magazine.

For the next series, " Elric of Melnibone ", ( also written by Roy Thomas ) Russell shared art duties with Michael T. Gilbert.

* Michael Moorcock's Elric sequence, beginning with The Dreaming City ( published in Science Fantasy 1961 ), notable for its adherence to counterstereotype.

The song " Knight of the Swords " is about the god Arioch in Michael Moorcock's Elric stories.

* Michael Moorcock's character Elric of Melniboné — a tormented, sickly albino sorcerer with a demonic sword and a sizeable evil streak — was intended to be the polar opposite of the typical fantasy heroes of the time, who were almost universally muscular, Conan-like figures.

Túrin shares some similarities with Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, who is also based on Kullervo.

Finally, Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone possesses a similar blade, known as Stormbringer.

* Elric mythos ( from Michael Moorcock's Elric novels )

For the first 1980 printing, TSR obtained permission from Michael Moorcock for inclusion of Melnibonéan material ( from his Elric series of books ).

Alternatively, an inker may do the basic layout of the page, give the work to another artist to do more detailed pencil work, and then ink the page himself ( as Joe Simon often did when inking Jack Kirby, or when Michael T. Gilbert collaborated with penciller P. Craig Russell on the Elric of Melniboné series ).

Brunner and novelist Michael Moorcock collaborated on a comics adaptation of Moorcock's sword-and-sorcery hero Elric in Heavy Metal magazine.

His paintings have appeared on the covers of more than 350 books and magazines, including many Stephen King novels, most of the Del Rey editions of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, the Del Rey edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Mars series, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Star series, the DAW editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric books, numerous DAW editions of C. J. Cherryh's work, many of Robert A. Heinlein's novels including Friday and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the Ace editions of H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy novels, and Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch series.

( 1987 ), and in " At First Just Ghostly ", " Deep in the Depths of the Acme Warehouse " and " The Gothic Touch " ( which features Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné ), collected in Exorcisms and Ecstasies ( 1997 ).

Russell didn't return to Elric until 1997 when he collaborated directly with Michael Moorcock on Elric: Stormbringer co-published by Dark Horse and Topps.

Chardros is a Lord of Chaos, a fictional demon or god in the Elric saga written by Michael Moorcock.

Another good example under this definition of dark fantasy is Michael Moorcock's saga of the albino swordsman Elric.

Michael Ansara as Elric in Babylon 5

From 2003 to 2006, he drew the four issue prestige mini-series Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer, written by Elric's creator, Michael Moorcock.

" Veteran of the Psychic Wars " is a song by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, written by Eric Bloom and British author Michael Moorcock ( creator of Elric of Melniboné ).

Michael Moorcock created a sinister magic sword in Stormbringer, wielded by Elric of Melniboné.

Moorcock acknowledges the work of Bertolt Brecht, particularly Threepenny Novel and The Threepenny Opera, as " one of the chief influences " on the initial Elric sequence ; he dedicated the 1972 Elric of Melnibone to Brecht.

* Elric appears on the cover of UK heavy metal band Diamond Head's 1981 album " Living on Borrowed Time ".

Elric loathes the sword but is almost helpless without the strength and vitality it confers on him.

Ultimately, Elric's reliance on Stormbringer proves his undoing: after the utter destruction of the Young Kingdoms in the battle of Law and Chaos, just as it seems that the cosmic Balance has been restored, Stormbringer kills Elric, transforms into a humanoid demon, and leaps laughing into the sky, to corrupt the newly-remade world once more.

* UK hard rock band Magnum has a song named Stormbringer, about Elric and his sword, on the reissue of their Kingdom of Madness album.

* The Italian metal band Domine has a number of songs based on the Elric saga and referencing Stormbringer and Mourneblade.

Additionally, Elric and Stormbringer are featured on the cover art for all four albums.

Elric and Stormbringer are also featured on the album ’ s cover artwork.

The last moments of the series depict Elric on board a train on his way to meet Oberth, determined to study rocketry with him.

In the Elric novel The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, Erekosë makes an appearance, but seems to have reverted back to his pre-Urlik aspect, the resurrected Erekosë.

He also alludes to the fact that he has a different name, but, possibly because he meets Elric and Corum on a world other than his own, he can ’ t recall it, and picks Erekosë as a temporary name.

The teen, born Elric Freeman, took the name Elric Whitemane in honor of his new Kymellian heritage ( intimating that the unnamed Kymellian pilot was that reality's Aelfyre Whitemane ), and combining his horse-like alternate form with his love of stories of the American Old West, assumed a cowboy-like costumed identity as Kid Colt to fight oppression on the rapidly-deteriorating Earth counterpart.