Especially during 2010-2020 it's literally the White Guilt the book
>>24740639Because Elric is a whiny bitch. He may have a cool aesthetic, but that's about it. The stories about Corum were way cooler.
>AAAAA, ARIOCH! MY SNOW WHITE CHEEKS ARE BEING SPREAD BY THIS APE CHIMERA! ARIOCH, AID ME NOW!>Ah, Elric, dearest slave, I see you are having your fill of Theleb K'aarrna. Or more precisely, I might say your filling of the Ape Whose Speed Shall Never Be Spent.>It is so.>Alas, child of chaos, now is not a good time for me. There are queer happenings I must attend to with my fullest attention. Even now you keep me far too long. You shall not have my aid but you have my blessing. Good luck.>Moonglum anchored his brows, giving him the look of bear provoked out of a deep slumber, "Fat help he was."
Oh great. Our daily dose of "Don't Read dis!!"Fuck off, frogposters.
Elric's complex character>Yeah i killed the white race u mad?>nooo i didn't kill him. stormbringer did.>Arioch save me
>>24740639Because Stormbringer
>>24740639need a movie/serial (but if they do so in anno MMXXV it will be woke))
>>24740639It was pretty damn big in the 70s. Blue Oyster Cult wrote music about it. People sold black light posters. The evil talking sword became a fantasy trope. Chaos got lifted for Warhammer. etc etcalso, is it white guilt generally or a comment on the collapse of the British Empire?