Stormbringer - Michael Moorcock
Stormbringer
By Michael Moorcock
Book 6 of Elric Saga
Part One
THE COMING OF CHAOS
PROLOGUE
For ten thousand years did the Bright Empire of Melniboné flourish. Ten thousand years before history was recorded—or ten thousand years after history had ceased to be chronicled, reckon it how you will. Only Melniboné ruled the earth for a hundred centuries—and then, shaken by the casting of frightful runes, attacked by powers greater than man, even she tottered and fell.
When that time came, ...