Customer Reviews

Phoenix in Obsidian: Being the Second Book of 'The Eternal Champion' (Mayflower Science Fantasy)

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

John Daker knows no peace, and after having made, as Erekose, a VERY questionable thing (see The Eternal Champion), maybe serves him right. or maybe he was a pawn of Higher Powers in the Multiverse? He finds himself in a world similar to that of The Ice Schooner, but much more dreary. He is evoked as Ulrik Von Skarsol, and he doesn't find his summoner. Certainly it's not the lecherous, paedophilic Bishop Belphig, a man of unspeakable vices who rules as Lord Spiritual ( a not so veiled mockery of the Catholic Church, I think) a hellish City of Decadence. Bishop Belphig abandons him during a hunting expedition, where Daker is urged to find the Black Sword (none other than Stormbringer, says the dwarf Jermays the Crooked) Daker doesn't want no black sword, he only wishes to return to his Eldren love Ermizhad. He will find his summoner and learn more of the nature of the Multiverse and of Eternal Tanelorn; his ordeal will continue in The Dragon and the Sword.

The adventures of John Daker are a crooked, crazed existential metaphor that's pure Moorcock as its best.

Also called the Silver Warriors, Erekose made his choice, and fought against humanity. With them destroyed, he has no choice but to find solace with the Eldren.

There is no rest for the Eternal Champion though, and again he changes, Urlik Skarsol is now Erekose and Erekose is Urlik, prince of the Southern Ice. He just wants to get back to his lover, but fate has other plans.

He also now has the Black Sword, the stealer of souls, and it has much work to do before Erekose can rest.