Stormbringer is the name of the infamous black sword featured in a number of fantasy stories by the author Michael Moorcock. Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer primarily of Science fiction and fantasy who has also Created by the forces of chaos, it is described as a huge, black sword covered with strange runes carved deep into its blade. Chaos (derived from the Ancient Greek, Chaos) typically refers to Unpredictability, and is the antithesis of Cosmos. It is wielded by the doomed albino emperor Elric of Melniboné. Albinism (from Latin albus, "white" see extended etymology) is a form of hypopigmentary Congenital disorder,

Contents 1 Description 2 Books by Moorcock about Stormbringer 3 Game influences 4 Media influences 5 Music influences 6 See also 7 External links 8 References

Description

This powerful enchanted black blade is a member of a demon race that takes on the form of a sword, and as such is a force of chaos and evil. Stormbringer's edge is capable of cutting through virtually any material not protected by potent sorcery, and it can kill any unprotected human in one swing. Its most distinctive features are that it has a mind and will of its own, and that it feeds upon the souls of those it kills. MIND ( Moving In New Directions) (est 1975 is an alternative education high school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Intent in Law is the planning and desire to perform an act, to fail to do so (i The soul, according to many religious and philosophical beliefs is the self-awareness, or Consciousness, unique to a particular living Elric loathes the sword but is almost helpless without the strength and vitality it confers him. Physical strength is the ability of a person or animal to exert Force on physical objects using muscles.

Stormbringer’s hunger for souls is such that it frequently betrays Elric by creating a bloodlust in Elric, turning in his hands and killing friends and lovers. The cursed nature of the sword adds to Elric’s guilt and self-loathing even as he feels pleasure when the stolen lifeforce enters his body.

Stormbringer has a "brother" sword named Mournblade, which was at one time wielded by Elric’s cousin and enemy Yyrkoon. Stormbringer is the name of the infamous black Sword featured in a number of fantasy stories by the author Michael Moorcock. It is identical to Stormbringer in most regards. Later stories reveal that there are thousands of identical demons, all taking the form of swords. Three such sibling blades appear in The Revenge of the Rose and many more are seen in the novel Stormbringer, but only Mournblade and Stormbringer are named.

In Elric of Melniboné, Elric and cousin Yyrkoon find the runeblades in a realm of Limbo and commence battle. See also Intermediate state Purgatory|Heaven|Sheol|Hades in Christianity|Hell in Christianity In Roman Catholic theology Limbo (Latin limbus Elric and Stormbringer disarm Yyrkoon, and Mournblade disappears. Yyrkoon is defeated, and Elric and his cousin return to Imrryr.

In The Weird of the White Wolf, Elric returns to Imrryr after a long journey and confronts Yyrkoon, who usurped the throne in his absence. Yyrkoon has regained Mournblade through unknown means and uses it to attack. Elric and Stormbringer kill Yyrkoon, and no further mention is made of Mournblade until it is later disclosed that it was recovered by the Seers of Nihrain, to be wielded by Elric's cousin, Dyvim Slorm. Imrryr is sacked, though the pillagers fate is not much better, being pursued by the golden battle barges and the few dragons who were awakened, led by Dyvim Tvar. Only Elric's ship escapes, propelled by the aid of his sorcery.

In Stormbringer, Elric learns that the representatives of Fate, which serve neither Chaos or Law, recovered Mournblade from the netherworld. They present it to Elric and explain that the runeblades were designed to be wielded by those with Melnibonéan royal blood as a check against the might of the Dead Gods of Chaos. Elric gives Mournblade to his kinsman, Dyvim Slorm, and the two men become embroiled in a confrontation between the gods. Elric summons others of Stormbringer’s demonic race (also in the form of swords) to fight against a number of Dukes of Hell, brought to the Young Kingdoms by Jagreen Lern, theocrat of Pan Tang.

Ultimately, Elric's reliance on Stormbringer proves his undoing: after the utter destruction of the Young Kingdoms in the battle of Law and Chaos, just as it seems that the cosmic Balance has been restored, Stormbringer kills Elric, transforms into a humanoid demon, and leaps laughing into the sky, to corrupt the newly-remade world once more.

Books by Moorcock about Stormbringer

• The Stealer of Souls (1963)
• The Singing Citadel (1970)
• Elric at the End of Time (1984)
• Elric of Melniboné (1972) ^[1]
• The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)
• The Weird of the White Wolf (1977)
• The Vanishing Tower (1970) ^[2]
• The Bane of the Black Sword (1977)
• Stormbringer (1965)
• The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)
• The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

Game influences

• The game Zangband features the sword 'Stormbringer' with similar vampiric effects and conferring increased strength and constitution upon the user. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Angband is a dungeon-crawling Roguelike computer game derived from Umoria.
• The Black Sword is a fictional sword first featured in Ultima VII: The Black Gate, specifically the expansion disk Forge of Virtue. Ultima VII is the seventh of the Ultima series of Computer role-playing games The game was released in two parts Ultima VII The Ultima VII is the seventh of the Ultima series of Computer role-playing games The game was released in two parts Ultima VII The It is also less frequently known as the Shade Blade. The Black Sword is the most powerful magical weapon in the game. When the sword is activated in the game by double-clicking it, the Avatar is able to converse with the demon Arcadion, who is able to either instantly and noiselessly kill a creature, or create a fire field.
• The sword also appears in both Ultima Underworld I & II.

• Stormbringer makes an unofficial appearance in the computer role-playing game NetHack, with many of the same attributes that it possesses in Moorcock's works such as a tendency to attack targets (including allies) by itself and sucking the force of the living beings that it hits. A computer role-playing game ( CRPG) is a broad Video game genre originally developed for personal computers and other home computers NetHack is a single-player Roguelike computer game originally released in 1987.
• A number of Stormbringer-like vampiric swords appear in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, most notably in the adventure White Plume Mountain, whose back cover art features a white-haired warrior wielding a black blade called Blackrazor. Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a Fantasy Role-playing game (RPG originally designed by An adventure is either a Published or otherwise written collection of plot character and location details used by a Gamemaster to manage the plot or In the World of Greyhawk Campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying game, White Plume Mountain is the name ^[3] Also the original edition of the book Deities and Demigods contained statistics for the Melnibonean mythos and Stormbringer. For the article on gods see Deity Deities & Demigods, alternately known as Legends & Lore, is a reference book for
• The Soul Reaver from the Legacy of Kain series shares certain attributes (devouring souls) with Stormbringer. Legacy of Kain is a series of Video games developed initially by Silicon Knights in association with Crystal Dynamics.
• In the computer game Drakan: Order of the Flame there is a sword that the player can collect known as the Mournblade. Drakan Order of the Flame is an action-adventure computer game developed by Surreal Software and published by Psygnosis in 1999 In its sequel, Drakan: The Ancients' Gates, there is a similar weapon called the "Mournbringer. Drakan The Ancients' Gates is an action-adventure PlayStation 2 game by Surreal Software. "
• In the Warcraft mythos, Arthas (a prince who betrays his country and becomes undead, ending up looking rather like Elric) wields a soul-stealing runeblade named Frostmourne (the name is similar to Mournblade). The Warcraft universe is a Fictional universe in which a series of games and books published by Blizzard Entertainment are set The Warcraft universe is a Fictional universe in which a series of games and books published by Blizzard Entertainment are set Also, the minor character, Highlord Mograine, carries the Ashbringer, an anti-undead blade whose name seems a clear reference to the Stormbringer. (The 'corrupted' version of this blade, which behaves more like the Stormbringer right down to the blade speaking to its weilder, was one of the strongest blades available to player characters of World of Warcraft for a significant length of time. World of Warcraft (commonly acronymed as WoW) is a Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG )
• In Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark, it is possible to find a black sapient sword in the midst of Undermountain, which contains the soul of a previous adventurer named Enserric; not only does it heal the player's character when it strikes enemies, but it is also capable of holding a conversation with the player or changing its shape.
• The King of Fighters series by SNK features a character named Heidern, who possesses a special move called the Storm Bringer, in which he uses his hand to drain the opponent's energy (life) through his/her chest. The King of Fighters (ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズ Za Kingu obu Faitāzu officially abbreviated KOF, is a series of Fighting games The King of Fighters series produced by SNK Playmore, contains many characters some of which are taken from other SNK games The energy taken instantly refills Heidern's own energy bar.
• There is a unique weapon in Guild Wars Nightfall named The Stormbringer, though the name may be coincidental as the weapon is an elementalist staff and not a sword. Guild Wars Nightfall is a fantasy MMORPG and the third stand-alone campaign in the Guild Wars computer
• Mournblade (as Mourneblade) is featured in Konami's video game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and possesses the ability to heal the player character whenever he strikes something with it (much like how Mournblade and Stormbringer grant their wielder health and vitality when used to slay a foe, though the game weapon can grant health even when striking non-living objects, such as candles). () is a leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys Trading cards, Anime, Tokusatsu, Slot machines Castlevania Symphony of the Night is a 2D Action-adventure game developed and published by Konami in 1997 Mourneblade is widely regarded as one of the best weapons in the game, and is considered a "rare" weapon.
• In Lineage 2 MMORPG, a Stormbringer is a C-grade(mid-level) sword of no particular rarity. Lineage II The Chaotic Throne (리니지 2 is a Fantasy Massive multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG) for the PC and a
• In the War of Genesis RPG series, the Stormbringer is wielded by Sharn Hoiste and Iron Mask, and is one of the legendary swords that exist in that world. The War of Genesis (창세기전 is a SRPG series developed by Softmax, a South Korean Game developing company True to its name, when attacking with it, it will randomly cast the spell "Lightning Storm. "
• The Soul Edge is a demonic sword which the Soul series revolves around. This article is about the game For the weapon Soul Edge (weapon is the first installment in the Soul series of Fighting games developed and Soul is a Weapon -based Fighting game series by Namco. The series revolves around a sword that after years of bloodshed and hatred gained It may have been influenced by the Stormbringer.
• The Elder Scrolls Series of Computer RPGs includes a recurring weapon called Umbra. The Elder Scrolls (also known as Elder Scrolls or abbreviated as TES) is a Computer role-playing game series developed This sword (generally the most powerful in the game) implicitly controls its owner, forcing them to change their name to Umbra and abandon whatever life they had. In addition it has the ability to trap the souls of anyone killed by it.
• A sightly modified version of the Stormbringer appears in MapleStory as the Doombringer. MapleStory (메이플스토리 is a free-of-charge, 2D, Side-scrolling Massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by
• In the card battle game Culdcept Saga there is an item card named Storm Causer, a living demon sword that adds a significant boost in attack power, yet dramatically reduces available health (hit points) for the user. Culdcept Saga is a Video game developed exclusively for the Xbox 360 Video game console. Creature cards that use Storm Causer will automatically perish if they do not have enough hit points to use the card to begin with.

Media influences

• Terry Pratchett's novel The Colour Of Magic features a sentient black sword named Kring. Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948 is an English fantasy, Science fiction, and children's author. Its favorite pastime is to ramble on endlessly about the heroes who have owned it or the centuries it has spent at the bottom of a lake. As a weapon, its power is to produce flashy special effects in combat.

• In Sluggy Freelance, Torg possesses a sapient, talking black sword called "Chaz"; it gains magical power from the blood of the innocent. Sluggy Freelance is a popular long-running daily Webcomic written and drawn by Pete Abrams.

• In Dave Sim’s graphic novel Cerebus, the Elric parody character Elrod of Melvinbone wields a sword called “Seersucker”, which leads Cerebus to remark to himself, “Tarim! Who would believe a sword could get rusty enough to turn black?”

• The bunny girl in Gainax's legendary Daicon IV short for the opening of the 22nd Annual Japan Science Fiction Convention in 1983 flies riding on top of Stormbringer. David Victor Sim (born May 17 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian Comic book Writer and Artist, best known as the A Cerebus the Aardvark, or simply Cerebus ( IPA: ˈsɛrəbʌs is an award-winning independent comic book, written and illustrated by is a Japanese Anime studio famous for productions such as The Wings of Honneamise, Nadia The Secret of Blue Water, is a Japanese Anime studio famous for productions such as The Wings of Honneamise, Nadia The Secret of Blue Water, Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar)

• R. A. Salvatore's popular assassin and anti-hero Artemis Entreri carries his trademark "Jeweled Dagger" which has similar attributes to Stormbringer. Robert Anthony Salvatore (born January 20 1959, Leominster, Massachusetts) who writes under the name R AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. Artemis Entreri is a Fictional character in the Dungeons & Dragons -based Forgotten Realms setting The vampiric weapon could suck the life force of its victim and use it to heal the wielder. Salvatore also employs sentient weapons such as Khazid'hea and Charon's Claw in his Forgotten Realms series. The Forgotten Realms is a Campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D Fantasy Role-playing game, created by

Music influences

• Mournblade was a British NWOBHM band who made two albums in the 1980s: Time's Running Out and Live Fast Die Young. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (frequently abbreviated as NWOBHM) is a heavy metal music movement that started in the late 1970s in Britain, and achieved Several of their songs feature references to Michael Moorcock's work.

• The band Hawkwind, who have had a long association with Moorcock, released an entire album about the story of Elric and Stormbringer, The Chronicle of the Black Sword. Hawkwind are a British rock band, one of the earliest Space rock groups They have also released both a single and double live album expanding upon this work, Live Chronicles. The double live album package includes an Elric short story. The album itself contains various narrations and poems read by Moorcock.

• The 1980 Blue Öyster Cult song "Black Blade" on the Cultosaurus Erectus album was created as a collaboration between Eric Bloom and Michael Moorcock. Blue Öyster Cult is an American rock band formed in New York in 1967 and still active in 2008 Cultösaurus Erectus is a Blue Öyster Cult Album released in 1980 Eric Bloom (born December 1, 1944) is an American Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist and Keyboardist.

• UK hard rock band Magnum has a song named Stormbringer, about Elric and his sword, on the reissue of their Kingdom of Madness album. Magnum are a British Melodic Rock band from Birmingham, England. It was one of the very first songs they recorded, and was not commercially available until this reissue.

• Seminal hard rock act Deep Purple has the powerful title track entitled "Stormbringer" on their 1974 album of the same name. Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertfordshire in 1968 Stormbringer is the ninth studio album by Deep Purple, released in November 1974 According to Moorcock, the band members were familiar with his work before they chose that name, but were apparently under the misimpression that "Stormbringer" was a name from mythology, when in fact it was invented by Moorcock.

• The German metal band Blind Guardian’s song Fast to Madness is based on Elric and references Stormbringer several times. Blind Guardian is a German heavy metal band which is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in Power metal and Speed metal It is found on their Follow the Blind album.

• The Italian metal band Domine has a number of songs based on the Elric saga and referencing Stormbringer and Mourneblade. Domine is an epic Power metal band started in the mid-1980s in Florence Italy Additionally, Elric and Stormbringer are featured on the cover art for all four albums. Michael Moorcock himself is specifically thanked and noted as an influence in the liner notes for each of their albums. Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer primarily of Science fiction and fantasy who has also
  • The Chronicles of the Black Sword ^[4]
  • Last of the Dragonlords (Lord Elric’s Imperial March) ^[5]
  • Dragonlord (The Grand Master of the Mightiest Beasts) ^[5]
  • Horn of Fate ^[6]
  • The Bearer of the Black Sword ^[6]
  • For Evermore ^[6]
  • Dawn of a New Age (A Celtic Requiem) ^[6]
  • The Song of the Swords ^[7]

• The song Bane of the Black Sword by American metal band Apollo Ra on their Ra Pariah album deals with the adventures of Elric and Stormbringer.

• The American metal band Cirith Ungol’s song Nadsokor from their One Foot In Hell album references Elric, Stormbringer and the city of beggars found in the Elric saga. Cirith Ungol was a Californian heavy metal band who formed in 1972 and split up in May 1992 Michael Whelan’s paintings of Elric and Stormbringer are also featured on the cover art of all four Cirith Ungol albums. Michael Whelan (born June 29, 1950) is a multiple-award-winning American artist specializing in Science fiction and Fantasy illustration Cirith Ungol (ˈkiriθ ˈuŋgɔl is a location in J R R Tolkien 's fictional universe of Middle-earth in his fantasy work The Lord of the Rings.

• The song Mourning Sword by the Greek metal band Battleroar on their self-titled album deals with Stormbringer.

• The Spanish metal band Dark Moor features an Elric and Stormbringer related song titled The Fall of Melnibone as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of their album Hall of the Olden Dreams. Dark Moor is a Spanish heavy metal band from Madrid. Formed in 1993 they produced three full-length albums before undergoing a line-up change in which The song was later made available to the American and European markets on the album Between Light and Darkness.

• The song "Borrowed Time" by the NWOBHM band Diamond Head on their Borrowed Time album deals with Elric and is told from his point of view. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (frequently abbreviated as NWOBHM) is a heavy metal music movement that started in the late 1970s in Britain, and achieved Diamond Head are a British heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. In this song, he refers to himself as “a slave to this black blade”. Elric and Stormbringer are also featured on the album’s cover artwork.

• The song Sword's Lament by American metal band Cauldron Born references both Stormbringer and Mournblade, along with a host of other fantasy swords. Cauldron Born is an American heavy metal band formed by guitarist Howie Bentley

• Finnish band Turmion Kätilöt released a song Stormbringer on their EP Niuva 20. Turmion Kätilöt (Literally ”Midwives of Ruin" or ”Midwives of Perdition” is a Finnish Industrial metal band founded in 2003 by MC Raaka Pee and DJ Vastapallo

• Italian epic metal band Assedium has the Elric and Stormbringer based song "The Messenger of Chaos" on their debut album Rise of the Warlords.

• The song "Legacy of Kings" by Hammerfall contains the line "Stormbringer lead us into the unknown. "

• Hailing from tiny Whitley Bay in the Northeast of England, the Tygers of Pan Tang name originated from Michael Moorcock's Elric saga, where Pan Tang is described as a realm of chaos-worshipping Mabden sorcerers. Tygers Of Pan Tang are a heavy metal band originating from Whitley Bay in the North-East of England, formed in 1978 ^[8]

See also

• Anglachel/Gurthang, the black sword of Beleg and later Túrin Turambar; and its twin Anguirel, from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. Anglachel, later known as Gurthang, is a fictional weapon from J Anglachel, later known as Gurthang, is a fictional weapon from J In the fiction of J R R Tolkien Beleg is a major character who appears in numerous books tales and poems about the First Age of Middle-earth Túrin Turambar ('tuːrɪn tu'rambaɹ is a fictional character in J The following list of weapons and armour of Middle-earth includes all weaponry and Armour directly taken from J The Silmarillion is a collection of J R R Tolkien 's mythopoeic works edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in
• Tyrfing, a cursed sword in the Norse Hervarar saga. For other uses see Tyrfing (disambiguation Tyrfing or Tirfing was a Magic sword which figures in a poem from the Norse mythology comprises the indigenous pre-Christian religion, beliefs and Legends of the Scandinavian peoples including those who settled on Iceland Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks is a Legendary saga from the 13th century combining matter from several older sagas
• A Rock and Roll band in Tampa, Stormbringer

External links

• Stormbringer.net — An overview of the Elric saga

References

1. ^ Variant Title: The Dreaming City
2. ^ Variant Title: The Sleeping Sorceress
3. ^ RPGnet d20 RPG Game Index: S2: White Plume Mountain
4. ^ Domine's Champion Eternal album
5. ^ ^{a b} Domine's Dragonlord (Tales of the Noble Steel) album
6. ^ ^{a b c d} Domine's Stormbringer Ruler album
7. ^ Domine's Emperor of the Black Runes album
8. ^ Tygers of Pan Tang: Biography

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