The Citadel of Forgotten Myths
core novel 2022 The Eternal Champion
Record
| First published | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.61 (741 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781982199807 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The Citadel of Forgotten Myths finds Elric journeying to the World Below after leaving the Young Kingdoms behind, discovering a hidden settlement where survivors of his own Melnibonéan people live alongside the Phoorn, a dragon-like race tied to Melniboné's ancient history. Drawn into the rivalries and conflicts among these long-separated kinfolk, Elric loses his sword Stormbringer to Xiombarg, Queen of the Swords and a formidable Lord of Chaos, and must find a way to protect a peaceful valley of Melnibonéans from her invading forces without the weapon he has depended on for most of his life. The novel returns to Elric's earliest years as emperor in tone, weighing his brooding sense of duty and memory against a threat that strikes at the last remnants of his vanished homeland.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Eternal Champion
- Series: The Elric Saga core; position 2 of 12 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Michael Moorcock
Notes
- From the series record (The Elric Saga): 12 novels in internal chronological order (per Saga Press's current standard edition), spanning 1965-2022 in publication. At least 4 of these are fix-ups of originally separate 1961-64 magazine novelettes (The Weird of the White Wolf, The Bane of the Black Sword, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, and, hybrid, Stormbringer); the remainder are original novels. The Sleeping Sorceress was retitled The Vanishing Tower for some US editions; the database records the earlier UK title. Publication order genuinely differs from internal order and no two secondary sources fully agree on the exact publication sequence due to UK/US divergence, internal (reading) order is used here as the primary axis since it is the one Moorcock himself settled on for the modern standard edition.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Elric Saga: position 12 of 12: previous The White Wolf's Son (2005)
- Internal chronology, within The Eternal Champion: position 6 of 30: previous The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981) · next The Mad God's Amulet (1968)
Sources
- Moorcock's Miscellany
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elric_of_Melnibon%C3%A9
- https://www.blackgate.com/2022/11/29/future-treasures-emthe-citadel-of-forgotten-mythsem-by-michael-moorcock/
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