The Weird Of The White Wolf by Michael Moorcock

The book continues with 'The Dreaming City,' which was first published in 1961 and introduced Elric and his world. It serves as a prologue to the book, however the following stories don’t flow from Aubec’s adventure, refer back to it, or even take place in the part of the Young Kingdoms where Aubec adventures. Aubec is also to give a view of the Chaos that reigns over the edge of the world in a manner which is never really shown through Elric’s eyes or visions.Īlthough Elric was described as using Aubec’s sword prior to his own acquisition of Stormbringer, and the clear tie Aubec has to the Young Kingdoms, the story seems out of place as the opening of The Weird of the White Wolf. Aubec is on a mission for his queen, Eloarde, to capture the Castle Kaneloon and expand her realm to the edge of the world. The story offers insight into the world as seen from the point of view of a human, rather than a Melnibonéan.

Michael Moorcock’s The Weird of the White Wolf opens with 'The Dream of Earl Aubec,' a story set hundreds of years before Elric’s birth, a recounting of the legend of Earl Aubec of Malador, who is referred to earlier in the Elric cycle and whose sword was wielded by Elric prior to his acquisition of Stormbringer.

THE WEIRD ON THE WHITE WOLF by Michael Moorcock DAW Books 978-0-87997-285-8 160pp/$1.25/December 1977

The Weird Of The White Wolf by Michael Moorcock