Any sensible person knows that Fei Fong Wong doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell here.
- The Eternal Champions are the only ones powerful enough to fight Agak, and Gagak. Not even the Lords of Law, and Lords of Chaos can do it.
- The Eternal Champions are so powerful that just by existing close to each other they threaten to destroy the fabric of the multiverse. Which is why they must sparingly meet, and only then for short periods of time.
- A weaker Eternal Champion who had yet to find his Tanelorn by the name of Jerry Cornelius was able to survive the Conjunction of Spheres unscathed.
- Varnik uses Stormbringer, and accidentally cuts an entire universe in half. Which frees the phoorn, and unleashes them upon the multiverse.
- Elric of Melnibone faces three Lords of Chaos in combat, and succeeds in defeating them. This includes Arioch, Balan, and Maluk.
- Arioch's fiefdom includes a million supernatural realms, he is capable of destroying them all as noted by Elric.
- Arioch acknowledges that he can't hurt Elric, and that he can only banish him. He does so by destroying a thousand realms which does no harm to Elric. This banishment doesn't last, and Elric is able to dispel it with Stormbringer's help. Starting from the bottom of the album to the top.
- Elric, and Rose get Sadric's soul back from Arioch by giving him Prince Gaynor the Damned's soul instead. After which they trap Count Mashabak's soul into the soulbox using Stormbringer. In this instance Stormbringer is able to channel the life-force of the multiverse, devour Count Mashabak's soul, and then transfer it into the soulbox. Count Mashabak is a Lord of Chaos, and a rival of Arioch who Arioch had captured and had been torturing earlier.
- Count Zenith, who is actually Elric on a dream quest, unseals Stormbringer. Just the act of doing so shakes the entire universe he is in.
- Elric fights, and slays Pyaray.A lord of chaos, and the leader of Hell's naval fleet. Stormbringer absorbs his soul, and transfers his essence over to Elric.
- Elric of Melnibone accidentally creates a black hole, and he is sucked into it. He survives, and is spit out into another sphere.
- Very early on before even getting Stormbringer or the Chaos Shieldhe is able to survive on moons and inside of suns.
- Elric mentions how he is treading towards near-infinity on one of the moonbeams.
- It is said time does not exist on the moonbeams, and that those who tread the moonbeams have no need of time. Those who travel the moonbeams can travel through time, and through the histories of entire civilizations.
- Stormbringer is described as more than just an incarnation of chaos. Instead of acting in contrast to law? It is in opposition of balance itself. It is the anti-balance. Whereas someone like Elric of Melnibone is representative of the balance as the Eternal Champion.
- Elric travels into the future using Stormbringer. It is revealed that Stormbringer once belonged to Lucifer (suggesting that he was one of the incarnations of the Eternal Champion), and that the forces of chaos were led by him. The Lords of Chaos are revealed to have been archangels who followed him.
- Elric is able to absorb King Silverskin using Stormbringer. This entity embodies all of the Eternal Champions. After receiving this power Elric resets the spheres back to normal after everything in existence was reversed due the switching of polarity by the Lords of Law. They did this to have their perfect multiverse of neatness, and regulation for the sake of the original insect. Who seeks to devour the multiverse. Rose Von Bek reveals that the true form of the Holy Grail is the Spammer Gain.
- Also, more on the original insect and spammer gain. They are counterparts of each other.
- More on dream quests, how they actually shape reality, how both sorcerers and dream-thieves are able to bring them into substance in any reality that they wish.
- When people go on dream quests they do more than just leave their bodies, and live their lives out in replica bodies across the multiverse. They even create the universes in question.
- Elric notes how dangerous going on dream quests is, and that people create universes and series of universes in the best case scenarios. In the worst case scenarios they threaten to destroy absolutely everything in the multiverse. Just with their sorcery, and drugs.
- Elric defeats Prince Gaynor the Damned. The Eternal Predator, and constant enemy of the Eternal Champion. He does so by summoning hundreds of Stormbringer's brothers and sisters. After which Stormbringer greedily devours every aspect of Gaynor. We see Elric breath fire like a dragon too.
- Straasha, the Lord of Water, embodies the gods of all oceans and has dominion over every ocean in the multiverse. He has his own sphere where the water spirits reside, and he opens a way for Elric to go back to the plane he was looking for. Elric swims his way through universes of water with Stormbringer, and every ocean in the multiverse before finally making it to his destination.
- Here Elric summons Lord Shaoshooan. A lord of wind. After which Prince Gaynor the Damned hacks away at the roots of the Skyraling Tree. Lord Shaoshooan is able to summon tornadoes powerful enough to cause damage to the Skrayling Tree and shake it. However, he is contained by the nine Kakatanawa.
- Ulric von Bek growing to the size of galaxies on the Skrayling Tree. Elric is the same size as him as we see later on.
- Elric grievously wounds the World Serpent, and cuts into his spine with Stormbringer. After which we find out he was only pretending to side with Prince Gaynor in order to give the World Serpent back the skefla'a it so desperately needed. It turns out the shield was one part of the skefla'a, the talisman Elric had given Ulric is another part of it, and he uses his sorcery to conjure flames to fuse it back into the World Serpent's spine. Another thing to remember is at this point Ulric, and Elric are the size of galaxies. The World Serpent is still far larger than they are, and yet these flames he conjured could still do this before disappearing among the branches of the Skrayling Oak. A good speed feat for Elric's sorcery, and the fire he can conjure.
- The Horn of Fate lets Elric change the entire multiverse in any way that he wants with just three blows.
- The Shield of Chaos protects him from the influence of chaos, and chaotic beings.
- By pressing the tip of a black sword against his Actorios Ring he can summon the Warriors at the Edge of Time. They are every Eternal Champion that has ever been or ever was.
- More on Elric of Melnibone's proficiency as a summoner.He can also summon the Tangled Woman.
Now as for the size of the multiverse?By Elric's perspective whenever he tries to summon Arioch there is an endless amount of universes his astral body traverses in order to find his patron deity.
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The ancient sorcerers who resided in Melnibone made note of the fact there was likely an infinite number of alternate earths.
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The multiverse is outright noted to be infinite by Myshella. A lady of law. Also, Elric of Melnibone has an incarnation of himself in every plane of existence.
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Once again the multiverse is referred to as having infinite realms, and that moonbeams are roads that extend from different spheres. Which means anyone who is able travel across them is moving pretty darn fast. Considering the fact that each of them is supposed to be infinite in size.
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In The Eternal Champion we see the multiverse brought up again, and it is noted that it is infinite. It is revealed that Tanelorn exists at the center of the multiverse, and never decays like other worlds. It is forever like the Eternal Champion.
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Also, in the same series it is revealed that the Eternal Champion and the Black Sword are always bound for each other. The Eternal Champion is the only person who can truly wield it. Which adds credence to the idea that Lucifer was one of his incarnations. As he was able to use it.
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Also, the book introduces the Ghost Worlds. Which are worlds that exist alongside a normal version of Earth. They are actually solid, and they each exist in their own dimension. There is an infinite number of them for every version of Earth. We already know there are an infinite number of Earths.
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And decided to double check.Phoenix in Obsidian actually has John Daker refer to the alternate dimension containing a Ghost World as a universe.
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That's not the only time Ghost Worlds are referred to as universes, and hosts of universes either.
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The Skrayling Tree confirms that the Elric Saga is is much larger than just a single megaverse. It describes the multiverse as a tree. A branch is a sphere or realm, and each branch has countless twigs which are each their own parallel world. So, spheres are actually infinite multiverses. Once you include the Ghost Worlds these spheres or realms become megaverses.
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The Eternal Champion makes it clear that the Ghost Worlds are connected to a version of Earth rather being a version of Earth, and are different than it existing parallel to a version of Earth. They do not exist in time, and space. The Eldren are stated to have likely come from there, and people from Ghost Worlds do not have souls.
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Taken from the Oswald Bastable series from Michael Moorcock's Multiverse.Once again it is said there is an infinite number of dimensions, and just the concept of space by itself has an infinite number of dimensions. That are constantly reproducing, and infinitely creating even more dimensions.
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Just speaking of the future when you are prescient to anyone risks the chance of creating another branch of the Skrayling Tree. The same goes with time-travel. So every time someone speaks of the future, or time-travels another branch in the Skrayling Tree is made.
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More on Limbo, or the Middle March it exists between each version of Earth and is a universe. Which has both stars, and constellations. So, now we have yet more to each branch within the Skrayling Tree. Besides the Ghost Worlds, and alternate versions of Earth. Which are their own universes too.
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Space is again referred to as infinite in The Black Corridor.
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Just a single universe has so many dimensions to it that there is no empty space, and keep in mind universes are already infinite in Michael Moorcock's Multiverse. These dimensions are all populated, and behave as their own universes.
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There is one infinite hell, and an infinite number of heavens which are each infinite.
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As noted in The Whispering Swarm we see that every piece of fiction exists across the Skrayling Tree. Which includes Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, and other popular folklore heroes.
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Also, Doctor Who and Michael Moorcock's Multiverse are canon to each other as of Doctor Who: The Coming of Terraphiles. Which was published by BBC, and written by Michael Moorcock. Which revealed that the Doctor was one of the Eternal Champions.
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