The Eternal Champion series is a series of literary works by Michael Moorcock, the influential and celebrated author of fantasy and science fiction from England. With a belief that science fiction and fantasy need to include all orientations, genders, and races Moorcock developed the idea of a confused paradoxical being struggling to find balance in an unordered world. In this regard, he made the Eternal Champion character, who is the lead protagonist in most of his multiverse works. The different incarnations of the Eternal Champion appear in several of his series of novels that include Jerry Cornelius, The Dancers, Gloriana, Hawkmoon, Corum, and the most popular Elric. The first novel published in the series was the 1970 published titular
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It is important that balance be maintained since having one dominate would result in a multiverse that is totally formless or permanently static. The three aspects of balance, chaos, and law are seemingly non-sentient forces that provide the different representatives and champions with their power. Just like your ordinary human, the Eternal Champion who lives in the different world, times and dimensions fights for Cosmic Balance even as he often is unaware of his role even sometimes struggling against it in vain. While he goes through long period of relative quiet, he is doomed to always have destruction and strife as constant companions in his quest for balancing chaos and law. Just like the Eternal Champions are different incarnations of each other, so are his companions and his romantic interest, all of whom cross from one universe to another. Even though the status of the reincarnations I the multiverse are, the different incarnation only occasionally interact. They are deemed actors in various cataclysmic events even as they are serial incarnations for the single consciousness of one entity. They may be brought together by these cataclysmic events such as the invasion of their different worlds by enemies from a different multiverse or the end of the ultimate cycle in their multiverse’s progression. Such …show more content…
The Eternal Champion is a fascinating character who fights with a special weapon that is often a manifestation of the Black Sword. The stories in Phoenic in Obsidian and The Eternal Champion are particularly enchanting with the character struggling against his destiny as he vaguely remembers his past, and has no inkling of what is to come. Event though the Champion has the advantage of knowledge and perspective that gives him acute knowledge of current happenings, he is in constant torment of a fate he cannot escape and his past losses. The Champion is something of a badass with an interesting personality and with a powerful weapon that he can wield in different incarnations; he is a very vicious opponent in any battle where he seeks to fulfil his destiny. The novel is the best introduction to Moorcock’s concept of the multiverse and makes for interesting reading. The second half is particularly fascinating with its narrative of the life and death stakes that humans are forced into as they seek to settle a new
It is important that balance be maintained since having one dominate would result in a multiverse that is totally formless or permanently static. The three aspects of balance, chaos, and law are seemingly non-sentient forces that provide the different representatives and champions with their power. Just like your ordinary human, the Eternal Champion who lives in the different world, times and dimensions fights for Cosmic Balance even as he often is unaware of his role even sometimes struggling against it in vain. While he goes through long period of relative quiet, he is doomed to always have destruction and strife as constant companions in his quest for balancing chaos and law. Just like the Eternal Champions are different incarnations of each other, so are his companions and his romantic interest, all of whom cross from one universe to another. Even though the status of the reincarnations I the multiverse are, the different incarnation only occasionally interact. They are deemed actors in various cataclysmic events even as they are serial incarnations for the single consciousness of one entity. They may be brought together by these cataclysmic events such as the invasion of their different worlds by enemies from a different multiverse or the end of the ultimate cycle in their multiverse’s progression. Such …show more content…
The Eternal Champion is a fascinating character who fights with a special weapon that is often a manifestation of the Black Sword. The stories in Phoenic in Obsidian and The Eternal Champion are particularly enchanting with the character struggling against his destiny as he vaguely remembers his past, and has no inkling of what is to come. Event though the Champion has the advantage of knowledge and perspective that gives him acute knowledge of current happenings, he is in constant torment of a fate he cannot escape and his past losses. The Champion is something of a badass with an interesting personality and with a powerful weapon that he can wield in different incarnations; he is a very vicious opponent in any battle where he seeks to fulfil his destiny. The novel is the best introduction to Moorcock’s concept of the multiverse and makes for interesting reading. The second half is particularly fascinating with its narrative of the life and death stakes that humans are forced into as they seek to settle a new