(Moorcock)



Now begins the tale of Elric

proud prince of ruins

who bore The Black Sword...

Here is the Chronicle of that albino lord

Who came to be called The White Wolf

Who was called The Kinslayer

Who was called Womanslayer

Who was doomed to be torn

between Chaos and Law

Who was born to be the pawn

of the Cosmic Balance

Who was at once, more his own master

than any who had lived before

And was at the same time slave

to bloodshed, cruelty, and war

Listen, listen now....

Listen to the tale of how

the White Wolf came by his Weird

Listen to how Elric earned

The Bane of The Black Sword

Elric of Melnibone

The Sailor on the Seas of Fate

Elric

Who battled to bring about the End Of Time

Elric

Who bore the sentient sword Stormbringer

And who killed the only two mortal women he ever loved

This is his sad, his terrible

Aye, and his heroic Saga

The Saga men call

The Chronicle of The Black Sword.....