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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 3937955" data-attributes="member: 27051">Completely agree.  Moral relativism is all well and good, but it's not really part of D&D alignments.  And even from a relatavistic point of view, I'd say that some things are pretty rotten no matter how you look at it.Well, you could do worse than to head on over to <a href="http://www.multiverse.org/" target="_blank">http://www.multiverse.org/</a> - that's Moorcock's site, a very friendly place filled with folks like me who like nothing better than to bang on about this stuff all day long <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />That said, though, I'll try to give you a quick answer to a slightly complicated bunch of books...Moorcock wrote the first Elric tales back in the 60s (a few short stories and a novella.)  These comprised the latter half of what would become the Elric saga.  Yeah, he wrote the ending first.  Over the following years, he filled in the blanks, through short stories and novels.  As the years went by, his style has changed a bit too.  Most recently, he did a spin-off trilogy that features Elric in our world and an awesome graphic novel with Walt Simonson that is a prequel to the whole saga.Terramotus' advice is very good.  The books he lists are collections of the main entries in the saga, and are very good.  The first one on his list Elric of Melnibone is the first in the series (not including the recent graphic novel), despite being written later.  Definitely read it, definitely read Weird of the White Wolf and definitely definitely read Stormbringer.  It rocks.Other than that, you could also conceivably start with the graphic novel (Making of a Sorcerer) which is both the most recent as well as the first chronological entry in the saga.You could also just read the original stories that came out in the 60s (recently collected by Gollancz Masterworks in an omnibus just called Elric.)  This comprises the second half of the saga, more or less, from Weird of the White Wolf onwards.You could go the whole hog and track down a couple of omnibus collections by White Wolf Publishing called Elric: Song of the Black Sword and Elric: Stealer of Souls.  These contain everything, apart from the recent spin-off series and the graphic novel.  They can be hard to find, and are uneven in style (being collected from across several decades) but are as complete a collection as it gets.  (There are a few other bits and pieces here and there I haven't mentioned, but only Moorcock obsessives like me tend to worry about that kind of thing...)Or you could wait until next year, when Del Rey are re-releasing all the Elric stuff in deluxe illustrated editions, with "director's cut" extras and the works.</blockquote>

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