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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yellow Sign" data-source="post: 2953503" data-attributes="member: 5619">62. Elric of Melniboné<img src="http://www.fantascienza.com/magazine/imgbank/LIBRI/elric-whelan.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Elric is an introspective, haunted, and tragic hero, seen by many readers as an anti-hero. A direct antithesis of Robert E. Howard's Conan, he was strongly influenced by the character of Monsieur Zenith created by pulp author Anthony Skene and Kullervo from the Finnish epic Kalevala. Moorcock's character of Elric is a doomed hero based heavily upon Scandinavian mythology, a person whose actions lead to ruin, and ultimately death.He is a complex character, prone to self-loathing, brooding and despair, compelled to adventure by his own dark fate rather than a desire for riches or glory.Being Emperor of Melniboné, he is a servant of the Lords of Chaos. Unlike his fellow Melnibonéans, who are decadent, cruel, and mostly devoid of sentiment and the gentler passions, Elric is plagued by his conscience, has modern sensibilities and is very curious of the outside world. Elric is the (often unwilling) tool of his evil, sentient sword Stormbringer, which is itself a parody of the normal sword-and-sorcery hero's weapon. In Stormbringer, the sickly Elric finds the energy he needs, but at a terrible price – Stormbringer feeds on the souls of those it slays and gives part of their life force to sustain Elric. Stormbringer is willful, and by no means under Elric's control:</blockquote>

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