'And So The Great Emperor Received His Education...' | Elric Of Melniboné - Author's Introduction

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  • @KitchenSinkSoup
    @KitchenSinkSoup  3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Now subtitled.
    If you are one of the artists featured in this video and want me to either -
    1. Remove the art from the video or
    2. Provide a link to more of your art in the description
    then please let me know, I'd be happy to do so.

  • @dafrca
    @dafrca 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I love listening to him say "Melniboné". I would love to hear him read the whole book. :-)

  • @TheRealVorynDagoth
    @TheRealVorynDagoth ปีที่แล้ว +26

    4:08 "for almost every hour of his life he lived 10 years upon the dream couches"
    131,400 hours in 15 years. Elric has roughly 1.3 million years worth of life experience where each lifetime he is an ultra powerful wizard that manipulates the entire multiverse by the time he is 15. That is a heck of an origin story

  • @luziankrieger8370
    @luziankrieger8370 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That intro added so much to the entire story for me. I love it!

  • @yogodagorah5928
    @yogodagorah5928 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The first great character in the Swords & Sorcery genre to focus on the “sorcery” part, Elric killed EVERYTHING. Gods of a dozen pantheons, demons dripping with arrogance and wickedness, unknowable Lovecraftian presences, rogue Chaos lords, friends, lovers, cousins, sorcerers and theocrats-everything. Elric was the John Wick of fantasy literature.
    Loved this vid-it was well-done, and worthy of the Last Prince of Melniboné

  • @connordorman117
    @connordorman117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    That is an incredible concept of passing down knowledge and wisdom as well as its consequences.

    • @Donathon-xt2nl
      @Donathon-xt2nl ปีที่แล้ว +2

      All knowledge and wisdom has consequences

    • @nbkawtgnobody
      @nbkawtgnobody ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Donathon-xt2nl Hail Odin!

  • @Henbot
    @Henbot ปีที่แล้ว +16

    It’s funny the impact Moorcock had. Even Final Fantasy til the recent ones had influence from it because Moorcock was a huge fan of the artist Amano - who was the FF Lead Character Designer

    • @KitchenSinkSoup
      @KitchenSinkSoup  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah, I'm pretty sure Amano even did some art of Elric over the years. It's really great to see all this mixing of cultures, it leads to some cool stuff.

  • @wikipediaintellectual7088
    @wikipediaintellectual7088 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Ten and a half minutes in and I'm fucking sold.

    • @TheRealVorynDagoth
      @TheRealVorynDagoth ปีที่แล้ว

      These books are fantastic....unfortunately not all are on audiobook. This is the author's introduction for the 1st book, Elric of Melnibone

    • @wikipediaintellectual7088
      @wikipediaintellectual7088 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheRealVorynDagoth
      Didn't show up in my Audible copy.

    • @TheRealVorynDagoth
      @TheRealVorynDagoth ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wikipediaintellectual7088 I've never listened to it on audible, but there is an older version of this on audiobook that has background music and this intro is part of it. I think they only did the 1st two books, Elric of Melnibone and Sailors on the Seas of Fate but never dubbed any more...at least i was never able to find the 3rd and onwards

    • @KitchenSinkSoup
      @KitchenSinkSoup  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheRealVorynDagoth yeah, this intro is only on the Audio Realms recording from 2003. I think the ones on Audible are newer

    • @TheRealVorynDagoth
      @TheRealVorynDagoth ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KitchenSinkSoup honestly the Audio Realms one with this intro is far superior and my only regret is that they were unable to do the entire series read by the author

  • @AAron-gr3jk
    @AAron-gr3jk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Is it me or are there more than the coincidence amount of similarities between Malnibone and the RRM Targaryen?

    • @abrahemsamander3967
      @abrahemsamander3967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Moorcock and Martin are actually friends in real life. One episode of thrones references stormbringer.

    • @longwlenguyen4214
      @longwlenguyen4214 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or Geralt from The Witcher.

    • @josephnarvaez9507
      @josephnarvaez9507 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@longwlenguyen4214 Well dont say that to the author lol

  • @OliverBrackenbury
    @OliverBrackenbury ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've recently had the good fortune to edit and publish a brand new Elric story. Mike is as wonderful a person as you'd hope he is.

    • @glendisshiko8182
      @glendisshiko8182 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Which Elric story was recently published?

  • @carlb8378
    @carlb8378 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I read the books so long ago . I completely forgot how much I loved this character . Wow, I can't remember anything about Elric Of Melnibonè . I do know I started reading a lot of fantasy . Maybe I just lost it in the shuffle , now I want to read his adventures all over again .

  • @perceptionmanagement2116
    @perceptionmanagement2116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic.

  • @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf
    @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks mate

  • @JB-mb1ro
    @JB-mb1ro ปีที่แล้ว

    Dramatic introducrion!

  • @mentorinspired
    @mentorinspired 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Elric will forever remind me of myself. Through and therein.

  • @davidbell1619
    @davidbell1619 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    STORMBRINGER!

  • @JB-mb1ro
    @JB-mb1ro ปีที่แล้ว +2

    By this description, Elric is a pretty basic dude.

    • @TheRealVorynDagoth
      @TheRealVorynDagoth ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pretty much his entire problem is being relatable