The Mad God's Amulet
core novel 1968 The Eternal Champion
Record
| First published | 1968 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.85 (2,660 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| Page count | 142 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765324740 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Following his victory at Hamadan, Dorian Hawkmoon journeys onward toward the city of Kamarang alongside his companion Oladahn, a beastman from the Bulgar Mountains, and the pair discover the ancient, mysteriously deserted city of Soryandum along the way. Their respite is short-lived: the Dark Empire's forces have tracked them down, and soldiers of Granbretan, led by the cunning renegade Huillam D'Averc, capture Oladahn in order to force Hawkmoon's surrender. When D'Averc's men plan to raze Soryandum to build a military base for their flying ornithopter craft, the city's ghostly, dimension-shifted inhabitants recruit Hawkmoon to retrieve a powerful crystalline device, the Mad God's Amulet, from a storeroom guarded by a deadly mechanical beast, a mission that could save both Soryandum and his imprisoned love, Yisselda, still held captive in Kamarang.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Eternal Champion
- Series: The History of the Runestaff core; position 2 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Michael Moorcock
Notes
- From the series record (The History of the Runestaff): Original title of book 2 was "Sorcerer's Amulet"; original title of book 4 was "The Secret of the Runestaff" -- both since retitled in reprints under the titles used here.
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 History of the Runestaff: position 2 of 4: previous The Jewel in the Skull (1967) · next The Sword of the Dawn (1968)
- Internal chronology, within The Eternal Champion: position 7 of 30: previous The Citadel of Forgotten Myths (2022) · next The Queen of the Swords (1971)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The History of the Runestaff
- https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?id=5998
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_God%27s_Amulet
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