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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 9574621" data-attributes="member: 2303">In Michael Moorcock's The Stealer of Souls (1963) (part of Elric of Melniboné saga), there is a story about how Aubec of Malador creates new lands out of Chaos. After being blessed by Myshella, the sorceress of Law, he travels into the gray, unformed potential of Chaos, creating new lands that are added to the Young Kingdoms setting where he lives. The power of Law ensures they become part of the ordered world rather than remaining undefined potential within Chaos.In my cosmology, what Aubec of Malador does is that he establishes causal links between the known world and the lands beyond its borders. As he journeys beyond the limits of the Young Kingdoms, he discovers new lands. In the fiction, Moorcock implies he creates these lands, but in my interpretation, he merely creates connections to them. Aubec’s power as a Champion of Law, aided by  Myshella, the sorceress of Law, allows him to establish stable causal links to these new lands. The lands he integrates into the world appear to have their own past, history, and culture, which only now become linked to the broader history of the Young Kingdoms. Did these lands already exist? The people who live there certainly claim they did. Is the question even relevant?While the Elric stories are works of a youthful author and somewhat naïve, I love many of the planar vistas he paints, including a depiction of something very like 4E's Astral Sea in Sailor on the Seas of Fate, first published in 1976.</blockquote>

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