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The Champion of Garathorm
Michael Moorcock

Then the Earth grew old, its landscapes mellowing and showing signs of
age, its ways becoming whimsical and strange in the manner of a man in his last
years.
- The High History of the Runestaff

And when this History was done there followed it another. A Romance involving
the same participants in experiences perhaps even more bizarre and awesome than
the last. And again the ancient Castle of Brass in the marshy Kamarg was the
centre for much of this action..
- The Chronicles of Castle Brass

CONTENTS
BOOK ONE DEPARTURES
1. Representations and Possibilities 13
2. Count Brass Goes A-Journeying 20
3. A Lady All In Armour 25
4. News From Beyond The Mountains 31
5. Reluctantly-A Quest 40
BOOK TWO
A HOMECOMING
1. Ilian of Garathorm 61
2. Outlaws of a Thousand Spheres 70
3. A Meeting in the Forest 77
4. A Pact is Made 81
5. The Raid on Virinthorm 87
6. The Wrong Champion 94
BOOK THREE A LEAVETAKING
1. Sweet Battle, Triumphant Vengeance 103
2. An Impossible Death 110
3. The Swaying of the Balance 117
4. The Soul Gem 121

BOOK ONE
DEPARTURES

1
REPRESENTATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES
Dorian Hawkmoon was no longer mad, yet neither was he healthy. Some said
that it was the Black Jewel which had ruined him when it had been torn from his
forehead. Others said that the war against the Dark Empire had exhausted him of
all the energy he would normally need for a full lifetime and that now there was
no more energy left. And some would have it that Hawkmoon mourned for the love
of Yisselda, Count Brass's daughter, who had died at the Battle of Londra. In
the five years of his madness Hawkmoon had insisted that she was still alive,
that she lived with him at Castle Brass and bore him a son and a daughter.
But while causes might be the subject of debate in the inns and taverns of
Aigues-Mortes, the town which sheltered beneath the great Castle of Brass, the