![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure enough The Ruby Throne deals with the rising ambition of one of the other royal family.Įlric may be physically week but he has an aptitude for magic and summoning. You can imagine this doesn’t make being emperor and ruling over this people any easier. He also seems to have a degree of control or perhaps conscience. He’s physically week and so old he’s kept alive by drugs (sorry special herbs) and magic. There are lots of naked people sometimes having sex, sometimes acting as decoration or apparently being lunch.Įlric is different. The Ruby Throne graphic novel illustrates this well. His people seem to have no conscience and the culture is aggressive and decadent as a result. Melniboné is an island and a civilisation made great by Elric’s ancestors. I don’t believe the novels have been out of print since. Elric did not appear in an original novel again until 1972. The novellas which followed became Stormbringer (1965). The albino champion first appeared in a novella called The Dreaming City back in 1961. I’ve not read any of the Elric of Melniboné books but I, as most gamers, have heard of Stormbringer. The Ruby Throne is the first in a new comic adaption of the books by Michael Moorcock. “Slender but impressive” – two words which could be used to describe the skull-white, 1000 year old, lord of Melniboné or the latest hardback from Titan Comics. ![]()
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