melnibone flourished for 10k
	so we're in a middle earth type realm
		"real" human history proceeds what we're reading about
i know the name elric of melnibone, but don't recall why or any context
	son of the line of kings
		moody-eyed
		runesword Stormbringer
		sorcerous knowledge locked in his skull
cold, past midnight
someone coming
six people around the fire
count smiorgan baldhead
	what a name
	so much filigree
elric needs these goons to reclaim his throne and bride
	hmm
others are
	yaris
		vaguely narrator
	dharmit of jharkor
	fadan of lormyr
	naclon, from vilmiria
	jiku, the dandy

except the goons have a large noticeable fleet and are worried about elric betraying them..?
	varis wants to begin the attack now before the dragon princes find out
naclon is a king
	okay, maybe these aren't just random goons
they need elric to navigate through some straits or something
imrryr
dreams come up a lot
anyway, elric wanders in
	i keep trying to type elcir for some reason
	old eyes but a young face
	he knows smiorgan personally
	shaped like a dorito
	a blue and white checkered shirt, red pants, and a green cloak? what a look
lmao the story mocks how elric is dressed too
has a method of fasttravel
elric's conditions are to raze the city but leave his cousin yyrkoon and yyrkoon's sister cymoril unharmed
yaris is a kid thrust onto a throne
elric did something spooky to hide the fleet
	not sure what level of magic we're on. demon summoning? sacrificing a youth to fuel a spell?
	whatever it was wore elric out too
	seems like a weather control spell of some sort
		big juiced up Obscuring Mist
elric has lots of knowledge but doesn't have the juice for most of it
	interesting.
yyrkoon has twice betrayed elric, fun
d'aww, elric has his own little boat
summoning up elementals to speedboat to imrryr

oh, imrryr is the last melnibonean city
	elric enforcing his "last of his kind" nature
many poisonous plants on melnibone
	mixture sustains the frail prince
		yyrkoon?
overcivilized, interesting
they keep telling us that elric doesn't like yyrkoon and leaving it at that
city built as a work of art instead of city
	fools
lots of sleepy-time drugs around
	been a minute since i've seen "soporific"
curfew? lame
elric has a friend on the inside, tanglebones
crack enuch archers, interesting
unlucky shot
the problem with mute guards
elric finds a sleeping girl
	cymoril
	deep in magic sleep
elric chants for a dark god of some sort while he kills some soldiers
makes plans to secure cymoril during the siege and then bounces

over 500 ships in the fleet
rowed by the fighting men, not slaves
	neat
guards on the walls
catapults on the ships
	nothing beats rock
dharmit's ship goes down immediately
the placement of this battle doesn't quite track for me
anyway, brief maze then landfall
yyrkoon caught onto tanglebones' plan and recaptures cymoril
	that other tower is a trap
elric considers walking into an obvious trap "lucky"
beyond the time datto?
we have stepped into another dimension
trading blows
cymoril calling for elric to stop
	but he both can't, and won't.
yyrkoon throws cymoril at elric and he accidentally stabs her

elric is taking this about as well as expected
unbound now, no home, no goals
last city of melnibone has fallen, but the dragon masters were nowhere to be seen
underground dragon caves
	might be getting unlocked
		we do still have three pages
ship ambush
	hid in the other paths of the maze, clever
yaris got too drunk and a woman stabbed him, lmao
summoning more elementals to escape
	the trance idea is interesting
greek fire of some flavor is in play
oh, hey, dragons coming in too
	combustible venom, cool
dyvim tvar
	was the head guard on the walls named the same thing? neat detail
twelves dragons is A Lot
elric cuts and runs
	definitely no hero, in case that was unclear
he's grown to hate his sword
tries to throw it away
	as if
has to jump overboard to grab the sword again