Erekosë

Erekosë is a character in author Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The Eternal Champion. He is an incarnation of Moorcock's character the Eternal Champion, and is unique among those incarnations in that he can remember his previous lives, something that frequently causes him great distress.

Erekosë appears as a lead character in three Moorcock novels and a graphic novel:

Another novel, The Sundered Worlds, appears in the White Wolf Publishing omnibus collection The Eternal Champion (with the novels The Eternal Champion and Phoenix in Obsidian, in between the two), but only as a bonus novel; it is not part of the Erekosë series. (The Dragon in the Sword appears in the following White Wolf omnibus, Von Bek.)

In The Eternal Champion, Erekose is introduced as "John Daker," a seemingly average man of twentieth-century Earth, who is soon transported to another world and forced to deal with his true calling. He finds love with the woman Ermizhad, but seems to be cursed not to be with her for very long.

Erekosë appears in a graphic novel by Moorcock and Howard Chaykin called The Swords of Heaven, the Flowers of Hell. In this story he assumes the role of "Clen of Clen-Gar," who resembles actor Burt Lancaster, and is a noble of the land called the "Dream Marches", part of a greater land called "Heaven".

He befriends a peaceful race of beings known as "Angels", who can best be described in one of their forms as flying manatees. In the day-time, they gracefully float through Heaven, absorbing water vapour from the air, and by night they release the stored water as acid rain upon a neighboring land coincidentally called "Hell", whose savage inhabitants live in poverty compared to the luxury of Heaven and the Dream Marches. The angels can also assume an insectoid form similar to human sized ant-men.

Erekosë meets and has a brief affair with a Noble woman named "Lady Gradesmor," who looks like Sophia Loren, and whose husband was killed in one of the frequent battles between Heaven and Hell. The story takes place chronologically between Phoenix in Obsidian and The Dragon in the Sword and ends with Erekosë meeting a ship that sails between worlds; some of which Erekosë recalls in the novel.

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