The Sailor on the Seas of Fate

Elric has rather unwisely left his decidedly untrustworthy cousin Yyrkoon in charge of things back home in Melinbone, as he goes questing. For what? Not exactly clear on that. Although he has the unreliable aid of a Lord of Chaos, and is on good terms with the elementals who control, well, the elements, he has a vision of world where men may live without these supernatural forces. And he thinks that answers may lie within the Young Kingdoms, although residents of the Young Kingdoms will despise him as a representative of powerful and decadent Melinbone.

This second novel is more episodic than the first, pitting Elric against a variety of foes in different lands and and on different levels of reality. It also introduces for the first time the concept of the Eternal Champion. Elric joins forces with Corum. Hawksmoon, and Erikose with whom he forms a single entity to defeat something. (Full disclosure, although I read this books only last week, details are already vague.)

Whatever they are questing for leads through a jungle filled with some very nasty creatures. Sailors drop like flies, but Elric picks up a new friend along the way, a Captain Smiorgan. But being Elric's trusted friend is not always a good gig to have.